Backend Engineer, Gitaly: Cluster at GitLab Remote The GitLab DevSecOps platform (https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform/) empowers 100,000 organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
We are one of the world's largest all-remote companies (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) with 2,000 team members and values (https://handbook.
gitlab.com/handbook/values/) that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab (https://vimeo.
com/778157354) . The GitLab DevSecOps platform (https://about.gitlab.
com/solutions/devops-platform/) empowers 100,000 organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world's largest all-remote companies (https://about.gitlab.
com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) with 2,000 team members and values (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/) that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.
Learn more about Life at GitLab (https://vimeo.com/778157354) . At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a remote and agile (https://about.
gitlab.com/2015/09/14/remote-agile-at-gitlab/) way. Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application.
Senior Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes both the open source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service as well.
They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers (https://about.gitlab.
com/job-families/engineering/frontend-engineer) to solve common goals. Gitaly is the Git data storage tier of GitLab, providing a reliable, secure and fast distributed Git data store over gRPC. For more information about Gitaly, see the team's Direction (https://about.
gitlab.com/direction/gitaly/) page. Gitaly's high-availability storage requires developers who understand distributed storage systems, their management, observability and availability.
Cluster team contributes features, fixes bugs and improves performance of this software stack. Currently, we're building a new distributed cluster solution (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/8903) and improvements to our Disaster Recovery readiness.
Responsibilities Within the Gitaly team specifically, in this role, you will: - Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly. - Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service. - Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the team's goals.
- Develop Gitaly in accordance with the product's goals. - Instrument, monitor and profile Gitaly in the production environment. - Build dashboards and alerts to monitor the health of your services.
- Conduct acceptance testing of the features you've built. - Educate all team memb.
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