Specialist

Responsibilities

• Work on large-scale, in-production distributed systems that enable GitLab to scale horizontally (e.g. Gitaly)
• Architect GitLab features that require distributed system expertise
• Optimize bottlenecks through performance monitoring and measurement
• Design and implement plans for increasing availability through partitioning/sharding
• Document answers and improves existing documentation
• Write blog posts relevant to the community

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed consensus protocols (e.g. Paxos, Raft)
• Strong understanding of tradeoffs with sharding
• Experience creating and working with distributed systems
• Experience building and scaling highly-available systems
• Proficient in Ruby on Rails and/or Go

All developers will work on issue triage.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day maintenance and evolution of GitLab’s Prometheus monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Create and/or improve open source Prometheus monitoring tools as required
• Bundle Prometheus as an out-of-the-box monitoring solution for GitLab CE/EE packages
• Contribute to the Prometheus open source project
• Build and maintain a GitLab.com public monitoring gateway
• Help migrate out current performance monitoring solution to Prometheus
• Improve coverage of GitLab performance monitoring
• Measure applications deployed with GitLab (e.g. Mattermost)
• Create automated alerts to notify team members of regressions
• Document answers and improve existing documentation
• Write blog posts relevant to the community

Requirements

• Experience writing production-level applications in Go
• Experience with managing large amounts of product analytics
• Experience developing time-series databases
• You have contributions in the Prometheus open source project