Intermediate Backend Engineer, GitLab
Go, Gitaly
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a remote and agile way
- Mandatory: proven professional experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments
- Mandatory: proven professional experience writing and testing high-quality code
- Mandatory: a good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems
- Highly desirable: proven professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go
- Highly desirable: a good understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers
- Highly desirable: experience with gRPC
- Highly desirable: willingness to learn Ruby
- Highly desirable: experience running highly-available systems in production environments
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
What the job involves
- Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application
- Senior Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product
- This includes both the open source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service as well
- They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product
- They work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve common goals
- Gitaly is the Git data storage tier of GitLab, providing a reliable, secure and fast distributed Git data store over gRPC. For more information about Gitaly, see the team’s Direction page
- Gitaly’s high-availability storage requires developers who understand distributed storage systems, their management, observability and availability. Cluster team contributes features, fixes bugs and improves performance of this software stack
- Currently, we're building a new distributed cluster solution and improvements to our Disaster Recovery readiness
- Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly
- Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service
- Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the team’s goals
- Develop Gitaly in accordance with the product’s goals
- Instrument, monitor and profile Gitaly in the production environment
- Build dashboards and alerts to monitor the health of your services
- Conduct acceptance testing of the features you’ve built
- Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability
- Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review others’ code
- Be positive and solution-oriented
- Constantly improve the quality & security of the product
- Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways to address pain points in your own experience as a developer
- Qualify developers for hiring
- Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests, including regular on-call duties
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.4m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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