Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Events Platform

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An overview of this role As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLabs Events & Messaging Platform team, youll be a foundational technical leader on a high-visibility infrastructure initiative that sits underneath nearly everything GitLab ships

GitLab runs two separate systems for async work today — Sidekiq for short-lived background jobs and a purpose-built event bus for longer-running workflows This role consolidates both into a single durable, scalable messaging and event-processing platform that powers GitLabs first-party products and underpins third-party integrations like webhooks and external triggers.

Youll bridge architecture and execution — owning the design of a genuinely multi-tenant distributed system, breaking it into work the team can deliver, and solving the hard problems along the way

Youll bring strong instincts around durability, tenant isolation, and horizontal scalability — telling a design thats durable from one that only looks durable under light load — and own reliability end to end

A defining challenge is migrating existing production workloads off the legacy systems without disrupting the traffic they carry.

What youll do Lead technical execution on the CD platform: decompose complex architectural d