Senior Backend Engineer, Go, Gitaly at GitLab
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GitLab is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer to scale Gitaly, the distributed Git repository storage tier. The listing covers Remote, Poland.
- Location
- Remote
- Work arrangement
- remote
- Technologies
- Go
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Role overview
GitLab’s Gitaly team builds the Git data-storage tier that provides reliable, secure and fast repository access through APIs and storage operations. The work covers distributed storage, repository management, availability, performance, observability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Go services that sit between GitLab and Git and serve repository operations for GitLab.com, self-managed and Dedicated customers.
- Improve repository storage scalability, reliability, performance and high availability across distributed systems.
- Build APIs and storage operations with clear contracts, observability and operational safeguards.
- Investigate production behaviour, diagnose failures and contribute to incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Balance roadmap delivery with technical debt, code quality and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate asynchronously with engineers across time zones and document designs and operational learnings.
Qualifications
- Professional experience building backend services in Go or a comparable systems language.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, storage, networking, performance and high-availability concepts.
- Experience designing APIs and production services with testing, observability and operational ownership.
- Ability to reason about repository or source-control data and work at the boundary between applications and storage.
- Good written communication and ability to work independently in a remote, async-first engineering organisation.
- Curiosity about Git internals, repository management, scaling source-code storage and customer-facing reliability.
Technology in this role
- Go: Design and maintain Go services that sit between GitLab and Git and serve repository operations for GitLab.com, self-managed and Dedicated .
- Ruby: • Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly .
- Git: GitLab’s Gitaly team builds the Git data-storage tier that provides reliable, secure and fast repository access through APIs and storage .
- CAN: Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting .
- gRPC: • Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly .
Role-specific candidate guide
Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.
Understanding the scope. This Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly position at GitLab is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “GitLab’s Gitaly team builds the Git data-storage tier that provides reliable, secure and fast repository access through APIs and storage operations. The work covers distributed storage, repository management,…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.
What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Design and maintain Go services that sit between GitLab and Git and serve repository operations for GitLab.com, self-managed and Dedicated customers.”; “Improve repository storage scalability, reliability, performance and high availability across distributed systems.”; “Build APIs and storage operations with clear contracts, observability and operational safeguards.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.
How to read the requirements. The listed qualifications include “Professional experience building backend services in Go or a comparable systems language.”; “Strong understanding of distributed systems, storage, networking, performance and high-availability concepts.”; “Experience designing APIs and production services with testing, observability and operational ownership.”. Mark each requirement as demonstrated, adjacent experience or a genuine gap, then use a concise example for the first two categories. A strong example explains what you personally owned, how you made trade-offs, how you validated the result and what you learned. If the posting specifies years of experience, language ability, certifications, location or eligibility, address those facts plainly in your CV or application rather than relying on the employer to infer them. Do not claim a qualification from exposure alone. For a requirement you do not meet, describe relevant transferable experience accurately and ask the recruiter whether it is mandatory.
Technology and working evidence. The technology terms associated with this listing are Go. Treat this as a set of posting-derived signals, not a guarantee that every tool is used daily or that.
Benefits
- Remote work under the country restrictions listed in the official posting.
- GitLab benefits supporting health, finances and wellbeing, plus flexible paid time off.
- Parental leave, team member resource groups, equity and employee stock-purchase opportunities.
- Growth and development support in a distributed engineering organisation.
About GitLab
GitLab is a remote-first DevSecOps platform. Gitaly is its repository-storage tier serving GitLab.com, self-managed and Dedicated deployments.
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View source and applySource checked: 2026-10-17