Remote Backend Engineer – Scalable Git Storage (Go)

GitLab Inc.; Poland; Remote; PLN 272,000 - 408,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team to build GitLab’s Git data storage tier, a standalone product that provides reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories through APIs and storage operations. You’ll work at the boundary between GitLab and Git to ensure repository access remains performant for GitLab.com, self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated.

You’ll balance roadmap delivery, technical improvements, customer reliability work, and operational support, valuing

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building distributed or highly available software.
• Experience leading complex projects end to end.
• Strong systems design and performance reasoning.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Go or other backend language experience.
• Experience operating production systems and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own moderately sized to complex initiatives end to end.
• Align stakeholders, communicate progress, manage risks.
• Lead design for distributed storage and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across GitLab.
• Improve engineering practices through reviews and docs.
• Take on on-call duties and incident response.
• Automate and improve testing and deployment workflows.
• Respond to emergencies and platform alerts.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

System design

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

English proficiency

Tools

Git internals

gRPC

Git server infra

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team to build GitLab’s Git data storage tier, a standalone product that provides reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories through APIs and storage operations. You’ll work at the boundary between GitLab and Git to ensure repository access remains performant for GitLab.com, self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated.

You’ll balance roadmap delivery, technical improvements, customer reliability work, and operational support, valuing