An overview of this role

The Platform Insights team vision will deliver a unified data event platform that allows users to query, visualize, and analyze their data in order to optimize their workflows within GitLab. We aim to create a consistent dashboard experience that makes it easy for users to ask the questions pertinent to their use cases and build rich team/use case specific views. The unified event platform will consume data from all stages so that users can monitor the health of their team, their processes, and their services all in a single pane of glass.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer with a strong background in high-scale and data-rich Golang applications, as well as familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems. Some examples of our projects: 

Link to project or effort 

What You’ll Do  

• Develop Golang Backend components leveraging high-scale data pipelines

• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment

• Craft code that meets standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

• Working with other GitLab teams to help them integrate monitoring and insights features into their product areas

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.

• Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

What You’ll Bring 

• Professional experience with Golang and PostgreSQL.

• Strong database experience and interest in developing expertise in ClickHouse databases

• Experience working with a platform or complex applications (Large scale is a bonus).

• Familiarity building and deploying software with CI/CD or other internal tooling.

• Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems.

• A user of modern DevOps platforms. (GitLab is a bonus.)

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.

• Monitoring system health with tools like Prometheus or Grafana.

• Analyzing metrics, developing automation scripts, scaling systems.

• Prefer a background or strong interest in learning Golang

• Prefer some GCP and/or AWS experience

• Prefer experience managing cloud infrastructure and ensuring efficient deployments.

• Prefer some experience operating a managed Kubernetes cluster (ex. GKE or EKS)