Is the Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights position at GitLab fully remote?

Yes, this Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights position at GitLab is fully remote and you can work from anywhere in the world.

What benefits does GitLab offer for this position?

GitLab offers the following benefits: 401k Matching, Certification Support, Paid Time Off, Flexible Hours, Health Insurance, Home Office Budget, Learning Budget, Remote Work.

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights at GitLab

Worldwide

<p>GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform">AI-powered DevSecOps Platform</a>, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/mission">mission</a> is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo/">Duo Enterprise</a> and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-platform-what-is-next-for-intelligent-devsecops/">Duo Agent Platform</a>, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC. </p> <p>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 <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/">values</a> and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p><h2>An overview of this role</h2> <p>As a Senior Backend Engineer on the <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/data-engineering/analytics/platform-insights/">Monitor: Platform Insights</a> team, you’ll help build a unified data event platform that lets GitLab users query, visualize, and analyze data from across all stages of the DevSecOps lifecycle. You’ll focus on high-scale, data-rich Golang services and strong database integrations (PostgreSQL and ClickHouse) to power a consistent dashboard experience, so users can monitor the health of their teams, processes, and services from a single pane of glass. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to ship secure, well-tested, and performant backend features, and to help other GitLab teams integrate monitoring and insights into their product areas. Over your first year, you’ll take ownership of key backend components in this event platform, contribute to improving quality, security, and performance, and play a central role in shaping how customers understand and optimize their workflows within GitLab.</p> <p>Some examples of our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/direction/analytics/platform-insights/">projects</a>:</p> <ul> <li value="1">Building scalable Golang backend services and data pipelines that aggregate events from multiple GitLab stages into a unified insights platform</li> <li value="2">Designing and improving dashboards and metrics that provide actionable visibility into team, process, and service health</li> </ul> <h2>What you’ll do</h2> <ul> <li value="1">Develop backend components and services in Golang that process high-scale, data-rich event streams for the unified Platform Insights experience</li> <li value="2">Design and implement database interactions using PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, focusing on performance, reliability, and observability use cases</li> <li value="3">Collaborate with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to define, build, and iterate on monitoring and insights features that solve real user problems</li> <li value="4">Craft maintainable, well-tested, and secure code that follows team standards, and uphold these standards through thoughtful code reviews</li> <li value="5">Integrate data from multiple GitLab stages into a unified event platform so users can monitor teams, processes, and services in a single dashboard</li> <li value="6">Partner with other GitLab product teams to embed monitoring, dashboards, and insights into their areas of the GitLab platform</li> <li value="7">Monitor system health and performance using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and contribute to automation that improves reliability and scalability</li> <li value="8">Participate in planning, estimation, and technical discussions as a self-directed contributor, helping to break down and deliver complex backend projects</li> </ul> <h2>What you’ll bring</h2> <ul> <li value="1">Experience building backend services in Golang for high-scale, data-rich applications</li> <li value="2">Proficient with relational databases, including PostgreSQL, and interested in developing deeper expertise with ClickHouse</li> <li value="3">Understanding of distributed, scalable, and reliable systems, and how to monitor system health with tools like Prometheus or Grafana</li> <li value="4">Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices to build, test, and deploy software, ideally using platforms such as GitLab</li> <li value="5">Experience or strong interest in operating applications and managing infrastructure in cloud and containerized environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Kubernetes or similar)</li> <li value="6">Clear, effective communication in written and spoken English, and a collaborative approach suited to a remote, asynchronous team, with openness to learning and applying transferable skills</li> </ul> <h2>About the team</h2> <p>The Platform Insights team sits within GitLab’s Monitor stage and focuses on building a unified data event platform that lets users query, visualize, and analyze data across all stages of the DevSecOps lifecycle. We are a small, cross-functional group of Backend Engineers and Data Engineers distributed across multiple regions, working asynchronously and documenting decisions transparently so collaboration stays smooth across time zones. We own the backend services and data pipelines that power dashboards, health metrics, and insights experiences inside GitLab, with a goal of giving users a consistent “single pane of glass” to understand their teams, processes, and services. Current challenges and opportunities include scaling high-volume event ingestion, improving performance for complex analytical queries, and creating reusable monitoring and insights capabilities that other GitLab product teams can adopt. For more on how we work, see the <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/data-engineering/analytics/platform-insights/">Team Handbook page</a>.</p><h4><strong>How GitLab will support you</strong></h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/">Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/paid-time-off/">Flexible Paid Time Off</a> </li> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/erg-guide/#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20TMRG%20%2D%20Team%20Member%20Resource%20Groups,-TMRGs%20are%20voluntary&text=The%20purpose%20for%20this%20type,developing%20the%20sense%20of%20belonging.">Team Member Resource Groups</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/stock-options/">Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan</a></li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/growth-and-development/">Growth and Development Fund</a></li> <li><a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave">Parental leave</a> </li> <li><a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/expenses/#equipment">Home office</a> support</li> </ul> <p>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 <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups">underrepresented groups</a> 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.</p> <p><strong>Country Hiring Guidelines: </strong>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. </p> <p><strong>Privacy Policy: </strong>Please review our <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate-faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a> Your privacy is important to us.</p> <p>GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-employment-opportunity-policy" target="_blank">GitLab’s EEO Policy</a> and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices" target="_blank">EEO is the Law</a>. If you have a disability or special need that requires <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#reasonable-accommodation" target="_blank">accommodation</a>, please let us know during the <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-to-our-interview-process" target="_blank">recruiting process</a>.</p>

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Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights

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Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights

GitLab(View Full Profile)

Full Time

$120,000 - $180,000*

8 months ago

Worldwide

Remote readiness · 46/100

Engineering

Senior

Golang

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

+1 more

Job Description

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

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 as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Monitor: Platform Insights team, you’ll help build a unified data event platform that lets GitLab users query, visualize, and analyze data from across all stages of the DevSecOps lifecycle. You’ll focus on high-scale, data-rich Golang services and strong database integrations (PostgreSQL and ClickHouse) to power a consistent dashboard experience, so users can monitor the health of their teams, processes, and services from a single pane of glass. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to ship secure, well-tested, and performant backend features, and to help other GitLab teams integrate monitoring and insights into their product areas. Over your first year, you’ll take ownership of key backend components in this event platform, contribute to improving quality, security, and performance, and play a central role in shaping how customers understand and optimize their workflows within GitLab.

Some examples of our projects:

Building scalable Golang backend services and data pipelines that aggregate events from multiple GitLab stages into a unified insights platform
Designing and improving dashboards and metrics that provide actionable visibility into team, process, and service health

What you’ll do

Develop backend components and services in Golang that process high-scale, data-rich event streams for the unified Platform Insights experience
Design and implement database interactions using PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, focusing on performance, reliability, and observability use cases
Collaborate with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams to define, build, and iterate on monitoring and insights features that solve real user problems
Craft maintainable, well-tested, and secure code that follows team standards, and uphold these standards through thoughtful code reviews
Integrate data from multiple GitLab stages into a unified event platform so users can monitor teams, processes, and services in a single dashboard
Partner with other GitLab product teams to embed monitoring, dashboards, and insights into their areas of the GitLab platform
Monitor system health and performance using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and contribute to automation that improves reliability and scalability
Participate in planning, estimation, and technical discussions as a self-directed contributor, helping to break down and deliver complex backend projects

What you’ll bring

Experience building backend services in Golang for high-scale, data-rich applications
Proficient with relational databases, including PostgreSQL, and interested in developing deeper expertise with ClickHouse
Understanding of distributed, scalable, and reliable systems, and how to monitor system health with tools like Prometheus or Grafana
Ability to work with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices to build, test, and deploy software, ideally using platforms such as GitLab
Experience or strong interest in operating applications and managing infrastructure in cloud and containerized environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Kubernetes or similar)
Clear, effective communication in written and spoken English, and a collaborative approach suited to a remote, asynchronous team, with openness to learning and applying transferable skills

About the team

The Platform Insights team sits within GitLab’s Monitor stage and focuses on building a unified data event platform that lets users query, visualize, and analyze data across all stages of the DevSecOps lifecycle. We are a small, cross-functional group of Backend Engineers and Data Engineers distributed across multiple regions, working asynchronously and documenting decisions transparently so collaboration stays smooth across time zones. We own the backend services and data pipelines that power dashboards, health metrics, and insights experiences inside GitLab, with a goal of giving users a consistent “single pane of glass” to understand their teams, processes, and services. Current challenges and opportunities include scaling high-volume event ingestion, improving performance for complex analytical queries, and creating reusable monitoring and insights capabilities that other GitLab product teams can adopt. For more on how we work, see the Team Handbook page.

How GitLab will support you

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 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. Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Requirements

Building scalable Golang backend services and data pipelines
Strong database integrations (PostgreSQL and ClickHouse)
Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, and other engineering teams
Ship secure, well-tested, and performant backend features
Help other GitLab teams integrate monitoring and insights into their product areas
Take ownership of key backend components in this event platform
Contribute to improving quality, security, and performance
Shape how customers understand and optimize their workflows within GitLab

Benefits

401k Matching
Certification Support
Paid Time Off
Flexible Hours
Health Insurance
Home Office Budget
Learning Budget
Remote Work

Skills

Golang

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

API Experience

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