Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll set the technical direction for our instrumentation platform, guide architecture for a foundational service, and mentor engineers across the company. You'll establish patterns that help teams build reliable, scalable instrumentation that improves billing accuracy, product insights, and long-term growth.

Our team is building a unified, Go-based instrumentation service that replaces multiple language-specific SDKs. This foundational service is used by all R&D teams at GitLab to manage the transport and validation of data across SaaS and Self-Managed environments.

What You’ll Do

• Architectural Leadership: Architect and guide the design of a unified Go-based instrumentation service, replacing language-specific SDKs with a high-performance, company-wide standard.

• Data Strategy: Own the strategy for handling and improving instrumentation data quality to increase billing accuracy and strengthen product planning.

• Mentorship & Training: Coordinate initiatives with product development teams to improve adoption of instrumentation best practices and consistency across features.

• Reliability Standards: Set reliability and turnaround standards for usage billing systems, contribute to critical-incident on-call coverage, and lead post-incident improvements.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Align requirements across research, development, and enterprise data organizations to deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders.

• Pattern Establishment: Own architectural choices that balance ease of use for developers with the strict correctness required by data consumers.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive Go Experience: Proven track record of architecting and shipping large-scale production services in Go.

• System Design Expertise: Demonstrated ability to design backend systems that scale and influence the architectural choices of multiple teams.

• Infrastructure Mastery: Deep expertise in system reliability, performance optimization, data quality, and observability.

• API Design: Proficiency in designing and evolving REST, gRPC, or similar APIs for internal consumption at scale.

• Stakeholder Management: Experience influencing product teams and data consumers through technical vision and mentorship.

• Foundational Impact: Deep expertise in instrumentation or analytics systems that have become critical to company operations.

Diversity & Representation

GitLab is committed to transparency in its diversity efforts. Per their 2024–2025 public disclosures, the following statistics represent their global and US-based workforce:

Global Gender Diversity:

• Women: 32.8%

• Men: 64.9%

• Non-binary or Other: 2.3%

US Race and Ethnicity:

• White: 64.2%

• Asian: 15.1%

• Hispanic/Latinx: 7.8%

• Black/African American: 5.8%

• Two or More Races: 4.1%

GitLab encourages individuals from underrepresented groups to apply, even if they do not meet every single qualification listed.

Compensation & Benefits

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees:

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental leave and Home office support.