GitLab
Intermediate Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor: Platform Insights
Job Summary
This role involves developing high-scale backend components using Golang to support a unified data event platform within GitLab. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality, security, and performance of features in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have experience with databases like PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, as well as familiarity with distributed and scalable systems. The position supports remote work and offers benefits focused on employee health, growth, and work-life balance.
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Benefits
Job Description
GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.
An overview of this role
The Platform Insights team vision will deliver a unified data event platform that allows users to query, visualize, and analyze their data in order to optimize their workflows within GitLab. We aim to create a consistent dashboard experience that makes it easy for users to ask the questions pertinent to their use cases and build rich team/use case specific views. The unified event platform will consume data from all stages so that users can monitor the health of their team, their processes, and their services all in a single pane of glass.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer with a strong background in high-scale and data-rich Golang applications, as well as familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems. Some examples of our projects:
Link to project or effort
What You’ll Do
- Develop Golang Backend components leveraging high-scale data pipelines
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Craft code that meets standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Working with other GitLab teams to help them integrate monitoring and insights features into their product areas
- Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
What You’ll Bring
- Professional experience with Golang and PostgreSQL.
- Strong database experience and interest in developing expertise in ClickHouse databases
- Experience working with a platform or complex applications (Large scale is a bonus).
- Familiarity building and deploying software with CI/CD or other internal tooling.
- Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems.
- A user of modern DevOps platforms. (GitLab is a bonus.)
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
- Monitoring system health with tools like Prometheus or Grafana.
- Analyzing metrics, developing automation scripts, scaling systems.
- Prefer a background or strong interest in learning Golang
- Prefer some GCP and/or AWS experience
- Prefer experience managing cloud infrastructure and ensuring efficient deployments.
- Prefer some experience operating a managed Kubernetes cluster (ex. GKE or EKS)
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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