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Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang
Location
India
Posted
40 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang
GitLab
• Architect and guide the design of a unified Go-based instrumentation service, setting the technical direction to replace multiple language-specific SDKs and maintain reliable, high-performance instrumentation across the company. • Own the strategy for handling, validating, and improving instrumentation data quality across the system, increasing billing accuracy and strengthening product planning. • Coordinate mentorship and training initiatives with product development teams across the company, improving adoption of instrumentation best practices and raising the quality and consistency of feature instrumentation. • Set reliability and turnaround standards for systems that enable usage billing and instrumentation, contribute to critical-incident on-call coverage, and coordinate post-incident improvements that reduce recurring issues. • Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization, aligning evolving requirements and delivering solutions that serve multiple stakeholders across the company. • Own key architectural choices that balance ease of use for product teams with reliability and correctness for data consumers, establishing patterns that scale the system as a foundational service for company-wide growth.
Job Requirements
- Extensive production experience with Go, with a proven track record of architecting and shipping large-scale services used by multiple teams.
- Demonstrated ability to design and own backend systems that scale, with experience shaping architectural choices that influence multiple engineering teams.
- Deep expertise in infrastructure concerns including system reliability, performance optimization at scale, data quality, and observability; proven ability to set standards and mentor others in these areas.
- Proven experience designing and owning APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that scale to serve multiple internal teams, with the ability to evolve designs based on diverse stakeholder needs.
- Experience coordinating initiatives across functional boundaries, influencing product teams, data consumers, and other stakeholders through technical vision and mentorship.
- Deep expertise in instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure; demonstrated impact building systems that become critical to company operations.
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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