Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. The Senior Backend Engineer will lead the design and development of a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates analytics instrumentation across GitLab's engineering organization, directly informing strategic product decisions.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Own the responsibility for handling the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's strategic decision-making and usage billing accuracy
• Train and support product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical support
• Manage on-call responsibilities during working hours for systems responsible for usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues
• Lead collaboration across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to understand requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders
• Make strategic 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

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 collaborative, 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 is helpful, along with Ruby on Rails experience