Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang

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About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer guiding the design and development of a unified data collection platform for GitLab. Building and maintaining systems to provide insights into customer usage patterns across GitLab's services.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the design, implementation, and evolution of a unified data collection platform using Golang, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and NATS, with success measured by reliability, performance, and adoption across GitLab teams.
  • Improve the emission, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, with success measured by data quality, data integrity, and usage billing accuracy.
  • Provide technical guidance for usage billing and instrumentation systems during working hours, with success measured by timely incident handling, effective root cause analysis, 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.
  • Make technical choices that balance ease of use for product teams with reliability and correctness for data consumers, with success measured by platform usability and reliable downstream data.
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and clear technical documentation, with success measured by stronger code quality, faster technical alignment, and more maintainable systems.

Requirements

  • Significant experience working with platform or infrastructure systems in production environments.
  • Strong proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services.
  • Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design and deliver scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers.
  • Experience guiding technical design and making tradeoffs across system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability.
  • Experience working across team boundaries with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with cloud native technologies and open source development practices.
  • A track record of mentoring other engineers and helping teams make clear, well-documented technical choices.

Benefits

  • 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$117,600 - $252,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudKubernetesOpen SourceGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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