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    Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

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    Remote, Poland
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    💰PLN 272,000 - PLN 408,000
    remotebackendGodistributed 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

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