Intermediate Backend Engineer, Database Automation

🕒 April 20

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks that make it safe and efficient to work with data at scale across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. • Work with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams to design and ship high-performing, reliable solutions. • Review and improve database-related changes from other engineers and external contributors to ensure data integrity, safety, and performance across diverse environments. • Design, build, and maintain tooling and guardrails such as SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks to proactively detect and remediate scalability, performance, and data health issues. • Research, design, and implement improvements to database performance, scalability, and data health, including areas like soft delete strategies and database migration testing. • Document database best practices, anti-patterns, and data architecture guidance so developers can make informed, consistent choices. • Develop solutions for database upgrade paths and migration strategies that maintain backwards compatibility while reducing downtime and operational friction for self-managed customers with diverse deployment configurations. • In this role, you'll succeed by shipping incremental improvements and, over time, building the capability to fully own larger pieces of work with shorter revision cycles.

🎯 Requirements

• Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments, including performance tuning and troubleshooting. • Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework, with experience designing, implementing, and reviewing backend features and services. • Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and performance trade-offs at a system level, especially in data-intensive applications. • Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in an all-remote, distributed team. • Self-directed work style with effective organizational skills and the ability to manage priorities as a 'manager of one.' • Alignment with GitLab's values, including transparency, teamwork, inclusion, and contribution to open source practices. • Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from related data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental leave • Home office support