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GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer to join their Gitaly team. Gitaly is the Git data storage tier of GitLab, providing a reliable, secure, and fast distributed Git data store over gRPC. The ideal candidate will contribute to features, fix bugs, and improve the performance of the software stack, focusing on building a new distributed cluster solution and enhancing Disaster Recovery readiness.Responsibilities:- 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 services.
- Conduct acceptance testing of the features.
- Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability.
- Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review others’ code.
- Constantly improve the quality & security of the product.
- Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways.
- Qualify developers for hiring.
- Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests, including regular on-call duties.
- Proven professional experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments.
- Proven professional experience writing and testing high-quality code.
- A good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems.
- 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 (highly desirable).
- Share GitLab's values.
- A fully remote work environment.
