Intermediate Backend Engineer; Golang), Monitor: Platform Insights

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Monitor:
Platform Insights team, you’ll help build a unified data event platform that lets Git Lab users query, visualize, and analyze data from across all stages of the Dev Sec Ops  lifecycle. You’ll focus on high-scale, data-rich Golang services and strong database integrations (Postgre

SQL and Click House) to power a consistent dashboard experience, so users can monitor the health of their teams, processes, and services from a single pane of glass. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to ship secure, well-tested, and performant backend features, and to help other Git Lab teams integrate monitoring and insights into their product areas.

Over your first year, you’ll take ownership of key backend components in this event platform, contribute to improving quality, security, and performance, and play a central role in shaping how customers understand and optimize their workflows within Git Lab.

• Building scalable Golang backend services and data pipelines that aggregate events from multiple Git Lab stages into a unified insights platform
• Designing and improving dashboards and metrics that provide actionable visibility into team, process, and service health

• Develop backend components and services in Golang that process high-scale, data-rich event streams for the unified Platform Insights experience
• Design and implement database interactions using Postgre
  
  SQL and Click House, focusing on performance, reliability, and observability use cases
• Collaborate with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to define, build, and iterate on monitoring and insights features that solve real user problems
• Craft maintainable, well-tested, and secure code that follows team standards, and uphold these standards through thoughtful code reviews
• Integrate data from multiple Git Lab stages into a unified event platform so users can monitor teams, processes, and services in a single dashboard
• Partner with other Git Lab product teams to embed monitoring, dashboards, and insights into their areas of the Git Lab platform
• Monitor system health and performance using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and contribute to automation that improves reliability and scalability
• Participate in planning, estimation, and technical discussions as a self-directed contributor, helping to break down and deliver complex backend projects

• Experience building backend services in Golang for high-scale, data-rich applications
• Proficient with relational databases, including Postgre
  
  SQL, and interested in developing deeper expertise with Click House
• Understanding of distributed, scalable, and reliable systems, and how to monitor system health with tools like Prometheus or Grafana
• Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines and modern Dev Ops practices to build, test, and deploy software, ideally using platforms such as Git Lab
• Experience or strong interest in operating applications and managing infrastructure in cloud and containerized environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Kubernetes or similar)
• Clear, effective communication in written and spoken English, and a collaborative approach suited to a remote, asynchronous team, with openness to learning and applying transferable skills

The Platform Insights team sits within Git Lab’s Monitor stage and focuses on building a unified data event platform that lets users query, visualize, and analyze data across all stages of the Dev Sec Ops  lifecycle. We are a small, cross-functional group of Backend Engineers and Data Engineers distributed across multiple regions, working asynchronously and documenting decisions transparently so collaboration stays smooth across time zones.

We own the backend services and data pipelines that power dashboards, health metrics, and insights experiences inside Git Lab, with a goal of giving users a consistent “single pane of glass” to understand their teams, processes, and services. Current challenges and opportunities include scaling high-volume event ingestion, improving performance for complex analytical queries, and creating reusable monitoring and insights capabilities that other Git Lab product teams can adopt.

We welcome candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement.

Equal Employment Opportunity Git Lab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. See also Git Lab’s EEO Policy. If you require accommodation during the recruiting process, please let us know.

Interested candidates should apply through the Git Lab careers site. This posting may be updated as the role evolves.