Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights
An overview of this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer in Platform Insights, youll build and evolve the core backend systems that power GitLab's data platform.
In this role, youll focus primarily on Go-based development for the Data Insights Platform and Siphon, with an emphasis on core system design, production readiness, and deployment across GitLab environments.
Youll own high-throughput, multi-component backend systems and help shape architecture, reliability, deployment, and operational maturity across GitLab's SaaS, Dedicated, and Self-Managed environments.
What youll do
- Design, build, and evolve backend services in Go for the Data Insights Platform and Siphon, with a focus on scalable ingestion, transport, replication, storage, querying, and deployment paths.
- Own significant parts of the backend architecture for Data Insights Platform, Siphon, and the Query API, including the gRPC integration between the Query API and the GitLab Rails application, and shape technical direction for system boundaries, reliability,
throughput, operability, and maintainability.
- Contribute to systems built around replication, buffering, query-serving, and query-oriented storage patterns, including Siphon, NATS or similar messaging layers, ClickHouse-backed storage, and APIs consumed by GitLab product surfaces.
- Drive production readiness and deployment of Data Insights Platform and Siphon across GitLab environments, with attention to rollout safety, workplace-specific constraints, and long-term operational readiness.
- Debug and improve complex distributed systems in production, including performance bottlenecks, scaling limits, failure recovery paths, and observability gaps.
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Data, and peer Engineering teams on technical design, iteration planning, code review, and delivery to keep the platform reliable, secure, and usable by downstream consumers.
- Work asynchronously with other team memb
📌 Senior Backend Engineer (India)
🏢 Gitlab
📍 India