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Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom

Posted 27 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
27 days
GitLab's roles stay open a median of 41 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of GitLab's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at GitLab
low
0 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
Hiring momentum
338 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team at GitLab, you will be responsible for building and maintaining GitLab's Git data storage tier, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability. Your role will involve managing complex technical projects, collaborating across teams, and improving engineering practices while ensuring operational excellence. You'll also take ownership of incident response and contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and workflows.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.

What you need

  • Significant professional experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software systems in large-scale production environments.
  • Experience owning complex projects end to end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support.
  • Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability.
  • A track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with stakeholders across teams and disciplines.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, improving team practices, and raising the quality of designs, code, testing, and documentation.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and make trade-offs clear.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly desirable.

What you get

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Remote work available but may have location-based eligibility requirements
  • Role involves regular on-call duties and incident response.

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Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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