Role overview

Intermediate Backend Engineer- Analytics Instrumentation

Requirements and responsibilities

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What you’ll do

  • Build and maintain a unified data collection platform using Golang, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and NATS, with success measured by reliability, performance, and adoption across GitLab teams.
  • Help improve the emission, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, with success measured by data quality, data integrity, and usage billing accuracy.
  • Support usage billing and instrumentation systems during working hours, with success measured by timely incident handling and reliable service restoration.
  • Work across the organization with research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to deliver common solutions, with success measured by adoption across multiple stakeholders.
  • Contribute to technical choices that balance ease of use for product teams with reliability and correctness for data consumers, with success measured by platform usability and trusted downstream data.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience working with platform or infrastructure systems in production environments.
  • Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services.
  • Backend development experience, with the ability to contribute to scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability.
  • Experience working in cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries.
  • Familiarity with cloud native technologies and open source development practices.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave
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FocusData EngineeringRole area
Seniority signalOpen levelCandidate level
StackGolang, Kubernetes, PythonPrimary skills
Location1 accepted countryEligibility

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