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title: "Prometheus Specialist"
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## 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](https://github.com/prometheus)
* 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 telemetry
* Experience developing time-series databases
* You have contributions in the [Prometheus open source project](https://github.com/prometheus)

In addition, see the [Production Engineer job description](/job-families/engineering/production-engineer).