Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitaly - Remote

Overview

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In Short

• Work on the Gitaly team, focusing on Git data storage solutions.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
• Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service.
• Develop and monitor Gitaly in accordance with product goals.
• Conduct acceptance testing of features built.
• Educate team members on best practices for high availability.
• Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code.
• Respond to user emergencies and support requests.
• Take initiative to improve software and address developer pain points.
• Qualify developers for hiring.

Requirements

• Proven professional experience in building, debugging, and optimizing software in large-scale environments.
• Experience writing and testing high-quality code.
• Good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems.
• Experience writing and testing quality code in Go is highly desirable.
• Understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers.
• Experience with gRPC is highly desirable.
• Willingness to learn Ruby.
• Experience running highly-available systems in production environments.
• Alignment with GitLab's values.

Benefits

• Work in a fully remote environment.
• Join one of the world’s largest all-remote companies.
• Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals.
• Opportunity for professional growth and development.
• Be part of a culture that values contributions from all team members.