Intermediate/Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (C), Tenant Scale: Git

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. More than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The Tenant Scale: Git team works on Git capabilities underpinning repository access in GitLab, contributing directly to open source Git and improving how GitLab uses Git in production.

• Experience building instrumented, observable software systems.
• Knowledge of Git internals including code and data structures or practical experience operating Git servers.
• Experience writing and testing production-quality code in C.
• Experience contributing to open source projects, including Git or similar systems.
• Familiarity with Go for backend development and understanding of Linux internals such as processes, memory management, input/output, and filesystems.
• Interest or experience in large-scale or distributed systems, storage formats, graph theory, or highly available production environments.

• Participate in architectural discussions and technical decisions related to Git and Gitaly to improve correctness, performance, and maintainability.
• Contribute features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to upstream Git.
• Adapt Gitaly to utilize new and existing Git capabilities improving scalability and efficiency.
• Connect open source Git project discussions with GitLab's product direction and engineering work.
• Scope tasks, estimate effort, and describe implementation plans to support team priorities.
• Test and validate features focusing on correctness and reliability.
• Collaborate with team members, contributors, and the Git ecosystem.
• Represent GitLab as a constructive participant in the open source Git community.

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