Senior Go Backend Engineer - Distributed Storage (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 272,000 - 408,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for the Gitaly team in Poland. You will own complex initiatives around distributed storage and Git repository management, balancing performance, reliability, and scalability while coordinating with multiple teams.

You should have strong experience in distributed systems, incident response, and mentoring, with Go as a primary language and familiarity with Ruby or Git internals and gRPC as desirable.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed systems.
• Experience owning complex projects end to end.
• Strong systems design and observability skills.

Responsibilities

• Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition to rollout and support.
• Lead technical design for distributed storage and Git repository management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and improve development practices.
• Take operational ownership including incident response and capacity planning.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Incident response

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Ruby

Git internals

gRPC

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for the Gitaly team in Poland. You will own complex initiatives around distributed storage and Git repository management, balancing performance, reliability, and scalability while coordinating with multiple teams.

You should have strong experience in distributed systems, incident response, and mentoring, with Go as a primary language and familiarity with Ruby or Git internals and gRPC as desirable.