Distributed Systems 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

 

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