First go at Dist Syst JD for Geo

source/jobs/distributed-systems-engineer/index.html.md

+---
+layout: job_page
+title: "Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems"
+---
+
+[GitLab Geo](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-geo/README.html) is an
+enterprise product feature that speeds up the work of globally distributed
+teams, adds redundancy for GitLab instances, and provides Disaster Recovery as
+well. As a Staff Software Engineer in Distributed Systems, you provide deep technical
+know-how to the rest of the team, and radiate this knowledge. This position
+reports to the Geo Engineering Manager.
+
+
+## Responsibilities
+
+As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to
+
+- Write exquisite code and peer review others’ code
+- Ship large features independently
+- Be positive and solution oriented
+- Make architecture decisions and author technical architecture documents for epics
+- Author code tests for hiring process and screen applicants
+- Constantly improve the quality & security of the product
+- Radiate your knowledge internally and beyond, by writing public blog posts
+
+Within the Geo team specifically, in this role you will
+
+- Architect Geo and Disaster Recovery products for GitLab
+- Identify ways to test and improve availability and performance of GitLab Geo at GitLab.com scale
+- Instrument and monitor the health of distributed GitLab instances
+- Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Deep experience architecting and implementing fault-tolerant, distributed systems
+- Experience building and scaling highly-available systems
+- In-depth experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, and/or Git
+- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
+- You share our [values](/handbook/values), and work in accordance with those values
+- [A technical interview](/jobs/#technical-interview) is part of the hiring process for this position.
+
+## Hiring process
+
+The hiring process for this position includes
+
+- A screening call with one of our Recruiters
+- An interview with a Senior Developer with deep knowledge of the Geo feature set
+- An interview with the Director of Backend
+- An interview with the VP of Engineering 
+
+
+**NOTE** In the compensation calculator below, fill in "Staff" in the `Level` field for this role.