Remote Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Data Stores: Tenant Scale

Description:

• The Intermediate Backend Engineer position at GitLab is focused on the Tenant Scale team, working on a long-term scaling solution for GitLab.
• The role involves developing new features in collaboration with product management, UX, and frontend teams.
• Responsibilities include keeping changes small and iterating towards the best solution, reviewing Rails and/or database related changes, documenting best practices, and developing tooling to inform developers of potential performance issues.
• The position requires researching, designing, and implementing solutions to improve product performance.
• The team is introducing a Cells architecture and an Organization entity to accommodate Gitlab.com's daily active user growth.
• Backend Engineers at GitLab work on the open-source version of GitLab, enterprise editions, and GitLab.com service.
• The role will have an impact across all of GitLab, changing functionality used by all features and consulting with development groups to support the Cells architecture.

Requirements:

• Significant experience with Go.
• Strong experience with databases, preferably PostgreSQL, in large production environments.
• Familiarity with gRPC.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a strong plus.
• Optional knowledge in infrastructure/deployments, scalability/sharing, and system programming languages like Rust or Lua.
• Ability to diagnose and prevent performance and optimization problems.
• Passion for open source and alignment with GitLab's values.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills.

Benefits:

• GitLab offers benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
• All work is remote and asynchronous.
• Flexible Paid Time Off policy.
• Team Member Resource Groups for inclusion and belonging.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and development budget.
• Parental leave support.
• Home office support.