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Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

GitLab · Remote, Poland

Posted 21 days ago

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This role has been open
21 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 the Git data storage tier, ensuring reliable and fast access to Git repositories. Your role involves leading technical initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and taking operational ownership of the systems you work on. You will also focus on improving engineering practices and responding to user emergencies while balancing project delivery and technical improvements.

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

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 specific mention of the tech stack beyond Go and backend systems
  • The role includes regular on-call duties which may impact work-life balance

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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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