Specialist

See Team Structure.


Backstage Specialist
A Backstage Specialist handles behind-the-scenes development that helps improve the productivity of other developers.
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
Issue Triage Specialist
All developers will work on issue triage.
Prometheus Specialist
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

 


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