[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![GitLab logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/12/WRILS-201207055737-109952.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md)[GitLab](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md) # Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md)ShareRemote from[Poland](https://jobicy.com/job-region/poland.md)SalaryPLN 272k–408k / yrDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished1 Nov 2026Apply before1 Dec 2026Listing views40Application actions1Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. GitLab seeks a senior backend engineer to develop and operate Gitaly, its Git data-storage and repository-access platform. The role focuses on distributed storage, Git repository management, high availability, performance, scalability, and observability in large-scale production systems. The engineer will own complex initiatives end to end, contribute to technical design, lead operational follow-through, and participate in on-call incident response. Success requires strong Go or systems-language experience, sound distributed-systems judgment, effective asynchronous collaboration, and mentoring capability. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior production-systems role involving distributed storage, consistency and concurrency trade-offs, reliability engineering, and regular operational ownership. It demands independent delivery of complex initiatives while coordinating technical decisions across multiple teams. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader PLN market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market ratePLN340,000PLN market range (per year)PLN280k–PLN430k0PLN473.00k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a PLN 272,000–408,000 base-salary range for Poland. The annual cadence is inferred because the posting does not state a pay period, but this is a full-time senior engineering base-salary range. A reasonable estimated Poland market range for a senior backend/distributed-systems engineer is PLN 280,000–430,000 per year; these are AI estimates, not verified salary research. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would use benchmarking and targeted profiling to isolate whether the bottleneck is in application logic, RPC behavior, Git operations, metadata access, or the storage layer, then validate the proposed fix with production-safe measurements. Describe how you make consistency and availability trade-offs for repository data. I begin by identifying the correctness guarantees users require for each operation, such as read-after-write behavior, ordering, and recovery expectations. I document failure modes and choose replication, coordination, retries, and reconciliation mechanisms that preserve the required guarantees while making latency and availability trade-offs explicit and observable. Tell us about a complex technical initiative you owned end to end. I would explain the initial problem and measurable outcome, the design alternatives considered, and how I gained stakeholder alignment. I would then cover implementation, staged rollout, monitoring, risk management, and the operational results, including any follow-up improvements identified after release. How do you approach an on-call incident involving a critical backend service? I prioritize mitigating customer impact using established runbooks, clear incident roles, and frequent factual updates. After stabilization, I verify recovery, preserve relevant evidence, and facilitate a blameless review that converts the incident’s contributing factors into prioritized corrective actions, monitoring improvements, and tested safeguards. How would you mentor engineers while maintaining delivery momentum on a senior team? I provide timely design and code-review feedback that explains the reasoning behind trade-offs, pair on difficult problems when useful, and create reusable documentation or examples. I delegate meaningful ownership with clear outcomes and checkpoints, helping engineers grow while keeping risks visible and delivery predictable. Opportunity details ## About this role. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. [Co-create the future with us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI) as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team, you’ll help build GitLab’s Git data storage tier, a standalone product that provides reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories through application programming interfaces (APIs) and storage operations. You’ll work at the boundary between GitLab and Git to make repository access performant and dependable for [GitLab.com](http://gitlab.com), self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated. Our work spans distributed storage, repository management, high availability, performance, observability, and operational excellence. We’re currently building the next generation of source code management (SCM), including new approaches to scaling Git storage and improving how repository data is managed and served. You’ll balance roadmap delivery, technical improvements, customer and reliability work, and operational support. We value pragmatic engineering, thoughtful trade-offs, continuous improvement, and sustainable ways of working while operating a service that’s critical to GitLab. Learn more on the [Gitaly Team Page](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/tenant-scale/gitaly/). ### What you’ll do * Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition and proposal through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through. * Act as the directly responsible individual for projects by aligning stakeholders, communicating progress and trade-offs, identifying risks, and keeping execution moving with minimal guidance. * Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability problems, using data and benchmarking to guide decisions. * Partner with engineers and teams across GitLab, including Git, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Dedicated, and customer-facing teams, to deliver cross-functional outcomes. * Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and constructive code reviews. * Take operational ownership of the systems you work on, including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity and performance analysis, and customer escalations. * Identify opportunities to improve work beyond an individual change through automation, reusable designs, better dashboards, upstream contributions, and improvements to development and testing workflows. * Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including regular on-call duties. ### What you’ll bring * Significant professional experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software systems in large-scale production environments. * Experience owning complex projects end to end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support. * Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability. * A track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with stakeholders across teams and disciplines. * Experience mentoring engineers, improving team practices, and raising the quality of designs, code, testing, and documentation. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and make trade-offs clear. * Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language. * Experience operating production systems, participating in incident response, and turning operational learnings into durable improvements. * Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly desirable. ### About the team The Gitaly team includes Backend Engineers who share ownership of the product’s design, implementation, reliability, and customer outcomes. We work autonomously while collaborating closely through design discussions, code reviews, incident response, documentation, and asynchronous communication. Engineers are encouraged to take ownership as directly responsible individuals, seek input early, make decisions transparently, and share knowledge across the team. Learn more on the [Gitaly Team Page](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/tenant-scale/gitaly/). The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the EU, applicable in the specified country or countries only. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location and having regard to any applicable collective agreements. The base salary range does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Poland base salary range: 272,000 – 408,000 PLN ### How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees * [Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) * [Flexible Paid Time Off](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/time-off-and-absence/time-off-types/#flexible-paid-time-off-pto) * [Team Member Resource Groups](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/culture/inclusion/tmrg-tmag/) * [Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/stock-options/) * [Growth and Development Fund](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/growth-and-development/) * [Parental Leave](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave) Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from [underrepresented groups](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups) are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. Privacy Policy: Please review our [Recruitment Privacy Policy.](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate-faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/) Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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