Intermediate/Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (C), Tenant Scale: Git
GitLab
Remote, Canada; Remote, India; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United StatesremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Architecture EngineeringBackend DeveloperGitSystem DesignData StructuresLinuxSass
Key highlights
- Remote role with global hiring (all roles are remote).
- Flexible Paid Time Off.
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Experience required with Git internals or operating Git servers.
- Open source contribution experience required (Git or similar systems).
Role overview
As a Backend Engineer on the Tenant Scale: Git team, you'll help improve one of the most widely used foundations of modern software development. This role focuses on making Git and Gitaly more capable, reliable, and efficient for GitLab and its users, contributing directly to upstream Git, shaping technical direction, and connecting open source community discussions with GitLab product needs.
Responsibilities
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical decisions related to Git and Gitaly, helping drive implementation choices that improve correctness, performance, and maintainability.
- Contribute features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to upstream Git in line with team and community goals, delivering changes that improve repository access and reliability for users.
- Adapt Gitaly to make effective use of Git capabilities, including integrating newly available features to improve scalability, efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
- Connect discussions in the open source Git project with GitLab's product direction and engineering work, helping align upstream contributions with product and platform needs.
- Scope tasks, estimate effort, and describe implementation plans that support the team's priorities and enable predictable delivery of technical work.
- Test and validate the features you build and integrate, with a focus on correctness and reliability to reduce regressions and support stable production use.
- Collaborate with team members, contributors and the Git ecosystem.
- Represent GitLab as a constructive participant in the open source ecosystem, building productive relationships that support ongoing collaboration with the Git community.
Requirements
- Experience building instrumented, observable software systems.
- Knowledge of Git internals, including its code and data structures, or practical experience operating Git servers.
- Experience writing and testing production-quality code in C.
- Experience contributing to open source projects, including Git or similar systems, and working effectively in public collaboration spaces.
- Familiarity with Go for backend development and understanding of Linux internals such as processes, memory management, input/output, and filesystems.
- Interest or experience in large-scale or distributed systems, storage formats, graph theory, or highly available production environments, including transferable backend or infrastructure experience.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Additional details
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
- The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, expecting all team members to incorporate AI into daily workflows.
- GitLab’s high‑performance culture is driven by its values and continuous knowledge exchange, allowing team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders.
- The Tenant Scale: Git team works on the Git capabilities that underpin repository access in GitLab, with a strong connection to Gitaly and the upstream Git project, collaborating asynchronously across regions.
- All roles are remote, though some may have location‑based eligibility requirements; the Talent Acquisition team can address location questions.
- GitLab welcomes candidates with varying levels of experience and does not require meeting every single qualification.
- GitLab is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer with comprehensive non‑discrimination policies and accommodations for disabilities.
- Recruitment privacy policy is provided; candidates are encouraged to review it.
- The Fortune 100 reference explains the trademark usage and data source.