Backend Engineer, Gitaly: Cluster (AMER)
Remote, Americas
The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the worldâs largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the worldâs largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
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At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a remote and agile 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 to solve common goals.
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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 teamâs Direction page.Â
Gitalyâs 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 and improvements to our Disaster Recovery readiness.
Responsibilities
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Within the Gitaly team specifically, in this role, you will:
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- Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
- Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service.
- Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the teamâs goals.
- Develop Gitaly in accordance with the productâs 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 youâve built.
- Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability.
- Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
- Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review othersâ code.
- Be positive and solution-oriented.
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Tasks- Conduct acceptance testing
- Design RPC interfaces
- Develop Gitaly
- Educate team on best practices
- Hiring
- Monitor and profile Gitaly
- Participate in architectural discussions
- Peer Review
- Respond to user emergencies
Acceptance Testing Agile Backend Development DevSecOps Disaster Recovery Distributed storage systems Distributed Systems Git GitLab Go GRPC High Availability Highly-available Systems Observability Open Source Recruiting Ruby Sales Security Systems Talent Acquisition Writing
Experience5 years
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