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Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is designing and operating GitLab's distributed Git storage tier so repository access stays fast and reliable for millions, owning initiatives from design through incident response.
If you love reasoning about how distributed storage really behaves under load, and you want to own a system that millions of developers quietly depend on, this is your kind of problem. You will design at the boundary between GitLab and Git, balance new roadmap work against reliability and operational care, and get to make the whole thing faster and more dependable. The team works autonomously and openly, so your good judgment about trade-offs will actually shape where the work goes.
Needs
- building software
- systems design
- debugging systems
- incident response
- cross-team work
Rewards
- automating toil
- high-stakes work
- visible impact
- greenfield building
Demands
- explaining trade-offs clearly
- aligning stakeholders
- regular on-call
- seeing risk early
Grows
- distributed systems design
- learning new domains
- giving code feedback
Values
- pragmatism
- ownership and accountability
- transparency
- autonomy
- craftsmanship
Drains
- operational firefighting
- customer escalations
- writing documentation
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