Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

📋 Description

• Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team building GitLab’s Git data storage tier as a standalone product.
• Work spans distributed storage, repository management, high availability, performance
• Collaborate with GitLab teams (Git, Infrastructure, SRE, Dedicated, and customer-facing) to deliver
• Balance roadmap delivery, technical improvements, customer reliability work, and on-call duties.
• Mentor teammates, improve engineering practices, and drive durable improvements in design and

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience building and optimizing distributed or highly available software in
• Experience owning complex projects end-to-end (design, rollout, operational support).
• Strong systems design skills: performance, failure modes, concurrency, observability.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate across teams.
• Mentoring experience and ability to raise quality of designs, code, testing, and docs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain trade-offs clearly.

🎁 Benefits

• Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
• Flexible Paid Time Off and other well-being initiatives.
• Growth and development resources and opportunities.
• Parental leave and equity compensation options.