Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby) at Gitlab

Remote, Australia; Remote, Canada; Remote, India; Remote, Ireland; Remote, Israel; Remote, Japan; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, Singapore; Remote, South Korea; Remote, United Kingdom·1d ago

Mid LevelFull-timeRailsPostgreSQLAgileGitAIData

Salary Range

$102,000 - $138,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our Database Excellence group at GitLab. This role involves developing and enhancing frameworks, patterns, and tooling to maintain GitLab's application datastores across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

Key Responsibilities

→Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks for working with data at scale
→Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and ship high-performing, reliable solutions
→Review and improve database-related changes to ensure data integrity and performance
→Design, build, and maintain tooling like SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks
→Research and implement improvements to database performance and scalability
→Document database best practices and data architecture guidance
→Create proactive tooling to help developers detect and remediate potential issues

Requirements

✓Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in production environments
✓Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework
✓Ability to reason about software design and performance trade-offs at a system level
✓Strong written communication skills for remote, asynchronous work
✓Self-directed work style with effective organizational skills
✓Alignment with GitLab's values of transparency, collaboration, and open source practices
✓Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches