Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor:Platform Insights

Senior Backend Engineer (Golang), Monitor: Platform Insights

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.

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.

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.

Examples of 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.