GitLab - Intermediate Backend Engineer - Analytics Instrumentation
Requirements
• Experience working with platform or infrastructure systems in production environments. • Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services. • Backend development experience, with the ability to contribute to scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers. • Familiarity with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability. • Experience working in cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries. • Familiarity with cloud native technologies and open source development practices. • The Analytics Instrumentation team operates at the intersection of Product, Analytics and customer facing teams, providing data collection infrastructure that serves engineering teams across GitLab. We're a distributed team of generalist engineers who tackle complex problems spanning the GitLab codebase, JS, Go and Python satellite services, data pipelines, and AI tool integration. We collaborate transparently across teams, delivering measurable results through efficient iteration, while building inclusive solutions that respect user privacy. Our work enables data-driven decision making across the organization. The Analytics Instrumentation team operates at the intersection of Product, Analytics, and customer-facing teams, providing data collection infrastructure that serves engineering teams across GitLab. We're a distributed team of generalist engineers who tackle complex problems spanning the GitLab codebase, JS, Go, and Python satellite services, data pipelines, and AI tool integration. We collaborate transparently across teams, delivering measurable results through efficient iteration while building inclusive solutions that respect user privacy. Our work enables data-driven decision making and data-informed planning across the organization. We're involved in diverse projects from event data collection and privacy compliance tools to AI-powered analytics frameworks that help GitLab teams learn about their users better. • 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:
Responsibilities
• Build and maintain a unified data collection platform using Golang, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and NATS, with success measured by reliability, performance, and adoption across GitLab teams. • Help improve the emission, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, with success measured by data quality, data integrity, and usage billing accuracy. • Support usage billing and instrumentation systems during working hours, with success measured by timely incident handling and reliable service restoration. • Work across the organization with research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to deliver common solutions, with success measured by adoption across multiple stakeholders. • Contribute to technical choices that balance ease of use for product teams with reliability and correctness for data consumers, with success measured by platform usability and trusted downstream data.
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