GitLab - Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)
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Requirements
• 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 collaborative, 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 is helpful, along with Ruby on Rails experience. • Our team is part of the Data Engineering organization and operates as a foundational service supporting all research and development teams at GitLab. We're responsible for consolidating and managing the systems that handle instrumentation data sending, transit, and quality across the entire company. Our work directly enables company strategy and decision-making by providing visibility into customer usage patterns across different product offerings and customer types (GitLab SaaS and Self-Managed deployment environments). This work supports usage billing and product decisions. 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 we ensure data integrity for billing and analysis. As a distributed team working asynchronously across multiple time zones, we collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the company and provide training and support to help them instrument their features effectively. • The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates instrumentation across the entire company, eliminating the need for multiple language-specific SDKs while maintaining reliability and performance. • Own the responsibility for handling the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's strategic decision-making and usage billing accuracy. • Train and support product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical support. • Manage on-call responsibilities during working hours for systems responsible for usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues. • Lead collaboration across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to understand requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders. • Make strategic architectural decisions that balance the needs of product teams (who need ease of use) with data consumers (who need reliability and correctness), ensuring the system serves as a foundational service for the company.
Benefits
• $117,600—$252,000 USD • How GitLab will support you • 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:
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