Intermediate Backend Engineer

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to build and improve production-grade backend services and scalable systems.

The role focuses on backend development, APIs, databases, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and distributed systems. The engineer will work with Go and modern backend technologies while contributing to reliable, performant, and secure production applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade backend services.
• Develop and maintain APIs and backend components.
• Develop and maintain production Go services.
• Design and maintain scalable database solutions using PostgreSQL.
• Work with database schema evolution.
• Build systems using queues, messaging, caching, and event-driven workflows.
• Implement observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, and cloud deployment workflows.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on backend features and improvements.

Required Skills

• Experience with production Go services.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Experience developing APIs.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience with CI/CD and cloud deployment.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and database schema evolution.
• Knowledge of caching, queues, messaging, and event-driven systems.
• Experience with production observability practices.
• Understanding of metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Understanding of concurrency.
• Experience with gRPC.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to design and work with scalable backend services.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform development.
• Experience with cloud-native systems.
• Experience designing scalable backend services.
• Experience with production observability and reliability practices.
• Experience working with distributed systems.