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Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

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  • →Ingeniero backend senior en Go que construye y mantiene Gitaly, el sistema de almacenamiento de repositorios Git de GitLab.
  • →Trabajas en escalabilidad distribuida, rendimiento, alta disponibilidad y operaciones críticas para GitLab.com y clientes auto-gestionados.
  • →Destaca el enfoque en el uso de IA como multiplicador de productividad en el día a día del equipo.

Proficiency in English is required for collaboration across global teams.

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1. ¿Cómo diseñarías una estrategia para reducir el tiempo de respuesta en operaciones de Git en Gitaly bajo carga alta?

2. ¿Qué métricas usarías para evaluar la salud de un nodo de Gitaly en producción y cómo actuarías ante una degradación?

3. Describe una experiencia en la que usaste IA para mejorar un proceso de desarrollo o operaciones en tu equipo.

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  • ✓Experiencia demostrable en Go (GoLang) con proyectos reales en entornos de producción.
  • ✓Conocimiento profundo de sistemas distribuidos, almacenamiento de datos y gestión de repositorios Git.
  • ✓Capacidad para liderar proyectos técnicos complejos desde diseño hasta despliegue y operación.
  • ✓Experiencia en diseño de APIs, observabilidad, monitoreo y resolución de incidentes en sistemas críticos.
  • ✓Habilidades de comunicación clara con stakeholders técnicos y no técnicos.
  • ✓Aptitud para mentoría, revisiones de código constructivas y mejora continua de procesos.

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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team, you’ll help build GitLab’s Git data storage tier, a standalone product that provides reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories through application programming interfaces (APIs) and storage operations. You’ll work at the boundary between GitLab and Git to make repository access performant and dependable for GitLab.com , self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated. Our work spans distributed storage, repository management, high availability, performance, observability, and operational excellence. We’re currently building the next generation of source code management (SCM), including new approaches to scaling Git storage and improving how repository data is managed and served. You’ll balance roadmap delivery, technical improvements, customer and reliability work, and operational support. We value pragmatic engineering, thoughtful trade-offs, continuous improvement, and sustainable ways of working while operating a service that’s critical to GitLab. Learn more on the Gitaly Team Page . 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 contr

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