Backend Engineer, Gitaly: Cluster

Responsibilities

Within the Gitaly team specifically, in this role, you will:

• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
• Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service.
• Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the team’s goals.
• Develop Gitaly in accordance with the product’s goals.
• Instrument, monitor and profile Gitaly in the production environment.
• Build dashboards and alerts to monitor the health of your services.
• Conduct acceptance testing of the features you’ve built.
• Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
• Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review others’ code.
• Be positive and solution-oriented.
• Constantly improve the quality & security of the product.
• Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways to address pain points in your own experience as a developer.
• Qualify developers for hiring.
• Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests, including regular on-call duties.

Requirements

• Mandatory: proven professional experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments.
• Mandatory: proven professional experience writing and testing high-quality code.
• Mandatory: a good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems.
• Highly desirable: proven professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go.
• Highly desirable: a good understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers.
• Highly desirable: experience with gRPC.
• Highly desirable: willingness to learn Ruby.
• Highly desirable: experience running highly-available systems in production environments.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.