GitLab - Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

• Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services. • Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers. • Experience with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability. • Experience designing and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that other teams integrate with. • Experience working in cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries. • Experience with instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure in application environments such as Ruby on Rails or comparable stacks. • Our team is part of the Data Engineering organization and runs a foundational service used by all research and development teams at GitLab. We manage the systems that send, transport, and validate instrumentation data across the company, giving us visibility into customer usage patterns across GitLab SaaS and Self-Managed deployment environments. This data informs usage billing and product planning. We're building a unified, Go-based instrumentation service that replaces multiple language-specific SDKs, making it easier for teams to instrument their features while ensuring data integrity for billing and analysis. As a distributed team working asynchronously across multiple time zones, we work closely with product and engineering teams across the company and provide guidance on instrumenting features effectively. • How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines: