Intermediate/Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab
Tenant Scale, Git
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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
- Experience building instrumented, observable software systems
- Knowledge of Git internals, including its code and data structures, or practical experience operating Git servers
- Experience writing and testing production-quality code in C
- Experience contributing to open source projects, including Git or similar systems, and working effectively in public collaboration spaces
- Familiarity with Go for backend development and understanding of Linux internals such as processes, memory management, input/output, and filesystems
- Interest or experience in large-scale or distributed systems, storage formats, graph theory, or highly available production environments, including transferable backend or infrastructure experience
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on the Tenant Scale: Git team, you'll help improve one of the most widely used foundations of modern software development
- Git is at the core of how developers collaborate, and this role focuses on making Git and Gitaly more capable, reliable, and efficient for GitLab and the people who use our platform
- You'll contribute directly to upstream Git, help shape technical direction, and connect open source community discussions with GitLab product needs
- Reporting to the Git team lead, you'll work across Git and Gitaly to deliver changes that improve repository access, performance, and long-term maintainability
- This is a unique opportunity to influence both an essential open source project and the systems GitLab uses to serve repositories at scale, while helping guide larger efforts that affect the future direction of Git
- Some examples of our projects: contributing new features and fixes to upstream Git, and adapting Gitaly to make effective use of new and existing Git capabilities
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical decisions related to Git and Gitaly, helping drive implementation choices that improve correctness, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to upstream Git in line with team and community goals, delivering changes that improve repository access and reliability for users
- Adapt Gitaly to make effective use of Git capabilities, including integrating newly available features to improve scalability, efficiency, and long-term maintainability
- Connect discussions in the open source Git project with GitLab's product direction and engineering work, helping align upstream contributions with product and platform needs
- Scope tasks, estimate effort, and describe implementation plans that support the team's priorities and enable predictable delivery of technical work
- Test and validate the features you build and integrate, with a focus on correctness and reliability to reduce regressions and support stable production use
- Collaborate with team members, contributors and the Git ecosystem
- Represent GitLab as a constructive participant in the open source ecosystem, building productive relationships that support ongoing collaboration with the Git community
- About the team:
- The Tenant Scale: Git team works on the Git capabilities that underpin repository access in GitLab, with a strong connection to Gitaly and the upstream Git project
- The team contributes directly to open source Git, improves how GitLab uses Git in production, and helps shape technical direction in areas such as performance, correctness, and maintainability
- Team members collaborate asynchronously across regions, balancing internal engineering needs with active participation in public open source discussions
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 capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected 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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $434.6m
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
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)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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