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Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang
Location
India
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang
GitLab
• 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. • Manage the handling of the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's key prioritization and usage billing accuracy. • Train and assist product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical help. • Manage on-call duties during working hours for systems that handle usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues. • Work across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to identify requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders. • Make key 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.
Job 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 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 in application environments such as Ruby on Rails or comparable stacks.
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave
- Home office support
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