Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom
Remote
Senior
Full Time
remotebackendGoseniordistributed systemsmentoringon-call
Requirements
- •Significant professional experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software systems in large-scale production environments.
- •Experience owning complex projects end to end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support.
- •Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability.
- •A track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with stakeholders across teams and disciplines.
- •Experience mentoring engineers, improving team practices, and raising the quality of designs, code, testing, and documentation.
- •Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and make trade-offs clear.
- •Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
- •Experience operating production systems, participating in incident response, and turning operational learnings into durable improvements.
What You'll Do
- •Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition and proposal through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through.
- •Act as the directly responsible individual for projects by aligning stakeholders, communicating progress and trade-offs, identifying risks, and keeping execution moving with minimal guidance.
- •Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability problems, using data and benchmarking to guide decisions.
- •Partner with engineers and teams across GitLab, including Git, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Dedicated, and customer-facing teams, to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
- •Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and constructive code reviews.
- •Take operational ownership of the systems you work on, including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity and performance analysis, and customer escalations.
- •Identify opportunities to improve work beyond an individual change through automation, reusable designs, better dashboards, upstream contributions, and improvements to development and testing workflows.
- •Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including regular on-call duties.
Nice to Have
- •Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure
Benefits
- •Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- •Flexible Paid Time Off
- •Team Member Resource Groups
- •Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- •Growth and Development Fund
- •Parental Leave
About GitLab
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