Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Development Tooling
GitLab
Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Development Tooling
Job Description
About this Role
Join GitLab as an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Development Tooling team to empower engineers with seamless workflows.
Craft internal tools and frameworks that eliminate friction in building, testing, and shipping software at scale.
Contribute to GitLab's mission of enabling everyone to co-create the software powering our world.
Work primarily in Go within large, complex codebases, driving innovation in developer productivity.
Collaborate with product, quality, and infrastructure teams to transform pain points into self-service solutions.
Accelerate human progress by uniting teams through an AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
Embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier in your daily workflows for maximum impact.
Own tools end-to-end, from design to documentation, fostering long-term adoption and stewardship.
Thrive in a high-performance culture where every voice is valued and careers accelerate.
Co-create the future of software development with industry leaders solving complex challenges.
Locations
- Canada, Remote, EMEA (Remote)
Salary
Salary details available upon request
85,000 - 140,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Go (Golang)intermediate
- Backend developmentintermediate
- API designintermediate
- Containerized environmentsintermediate
- Command line interfacesintermediate
- Prometheus monitoringintermediate
- Grafana visualizationintermediate
- Elasticsearch loggingintermediate
- Configuration managementintermediate
- Health checks and standardsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Experience as a backend or platform engineer in large, complex codebases (experience)
- Work in monorepos with significant refactoring or migration efforts (experience)
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) (experience)
- Track record of designing and building internal tooling or frameworks (experience)
- Experience building APIs or shared libraries (experience)
- Familiarity with developer workflows and tooling (experience)
- Ability to collaborate across engineering teams (experience)
- Skills in investigating performance and reliability issues (experience)
- Experience with configuration management and health checks (experience)
- Comfort working in all-Go environments (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Ruby on Rails services (experience)
- Knowledge of containerized development environments (experience)
- Proficiency in command line interface development (experience)
- Background in infrastructure abstractions (experience)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus (experience)
- Experience with Grafana for data visualization (experience)
- Skills in Elasticsearch for logging and querying (experience)
- History of promoting reusable components and standards (experience)
- Strong documentation and stewardship practices (experience)
- Participation in open-core software projects (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain internal backend tools, frameworks, and APIs
- Improve local development tooling and containerized environments
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks in developer workflows
- Develop standards for service communication and configuration management
- Collaborate with product engineers and infrastructure teams on pain points
- Configure and query monitoring systems like Prometheus and Grafana
- Interpret data from logging systems such as Elasticsearch
- Document tools, libraries, and workflows for team adoption
- Provide guidance and support for owned development tools
- Optimize developer tasks for speed and consistency across the SDLC
Benefits
- general: Comprehensive benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being
- general: Flexible Paid Time Off policy
- general: Team Member Resource Groups for inclusion
- general: Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- general: Growth and Development Fund for learning
- general: Generous Parental Leave
- general: Home office support and equipment
- general: Continuous knowledge exchange opportunities
- general: High-performance culture with valued voices
- general: Collaboration with industry leaders on complex problems
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Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Development Tooling
GitLab
Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Development Tooling
Job Description
About this Role
Join GitLab as an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Development Tooling team to empower engineers with seamless workflows.
Craft internal tools and frameworks that eliminate friction in building, testing, and shipping software at scale.
Contribute to GitLab's mission of enabling everyone to co-create the software powering our world.
Work primarily in Go within large, complex codebases, driving innovation in developer productivity.
Collaborate with product, quality, and infrastructure teams to transform pain points into self-service solutions.
Accelerate human progress by uniting teams through an AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
Embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier in your daily workflows for maximum impact.
Own tools end-to-end, from design to documentation, fostering long-term adoption and stewardship.
Thrive in a high-performance culture where every voice is valued and careers accelerate.
Co-create the future of software development with industry leaders solving complex challenges.
Locations
- Canada, Remote, EMEA (Remote)
Salary
Salary details available upon request
85,000 - 140,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Go (Golang)intermediate
- Backend developmentintermediate
- API designintermediate
- Containerized environmentsintermediate
- Command line interfacesintermediate
- Prometheus monitoringintermediate
- Grafana visualizationintermediate
- Elasticsearch loggingintermediate
- Configuration managementintermediate
- Health checks and standardsintermediate
Required Qualifications
- Experience as a backend or platform engineer in large, complex codebases (experience)
- Work in monorepos with significant refactoring or migration efforts (experience)
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) (experience)
- Track record of designing and building internal tooling or frameworks (experience)
- Experience building APIs or shared libraries (experience)
- Familiarity with developer workflows and tooling (experience)
- Ability to collaborate across engineering teams (experience)
- Skills in investigating performance and reliability issues (experience)
- Experience with configuration management and health checks (experience)
- Comfort working in all-Go environments (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Ruby on Rails services (experience)
- Knowledge of containerized development environments (experience)
- Proficiency in command line interface development (experience)
- Background in infrastructure abstractions (experience)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus (experience)
- Experience with Grafana for data visualization (experience)
- Skills in Elasticsearch for logging and querying (experience)
- History of promoting reusable components and standards (experience)
- Strong documentation and stewardship practices (experience)
- Participation in open-core software projects (experience)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain internal backend tools, frameworks, and APIs
- Improve local development tooling and containerized environments
- Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks in developer workflows
- Develop standards for service communication and configuration management
- Collaborate with product engineers and infrastructure teams on pain points
- Configure and query monitoring systems like Prometheus and Grafana
- Interpret data from logging systems such as Elasticsearch
- Document tools, libraries, and workflows for team adoption
- Provide guidance and support for owned development tools
- Optimize developer tasks for speed and consistency across the SDLC
Benefits
- general: Comprehensive benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being
- general: Flexible Paid Time Off policy
- general: Team Member Resource Groups for inclusion
- general: Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- general: Growth and Development Fund for learning
- general: Generous Parental Leave
- general: Home office support and equipment
- general: Continuous knowledge exchange opportunities
- general: High-performance culture with valued voices
- general: Collaboration with industry leaders on complex problems
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Answer 10 quick questions to check your fit for Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go), Development Tooling @ GitLab.
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