The opportunity
The Gitaly team includes Backend Engineers who share ownership of the product’s design, implementation, reliability, and customer outcomes. We work autonomously while collaborating closely through design discussions, code reviews, incident response, documentation, and asynchronous communication.
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.
What they're looking for
- Identify opportunities to improve work beyond an individual change through: automation, reusable designs, better dashboards, upstream contributions, and improvements to development and testing workflows.
- Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including regular on-call duties.
