Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

Location: Remote, Poland or Remote, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, security, compliance, and software delivery.

What you will do

• Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through.
• Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability challenges using data and benchmarking.
• Partner with Git, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Dedicated, and customer-facing teams on cross-functional outcomes.
• Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Operate production systems, including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity and performance analysis, customer escalations, and regular on-call duties.
• Develop automation, reusable designs, dashboards, testing workflow improvements, and upstream contributions.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available systems in large-scale production environments.
• Experience owning complex projects end to end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support.
• Strong systems design skills, including performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability.
• Experience influencing technical decisions, collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, and improving engineering practices.
• Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
• Experience operating production systems and participating in incident response.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with asynchronous collaboration and autonomous ownership.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
• Equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Growth and development fund, parental leave, and team member resource groups.