Principal Database Engineer, Data Engineering – Monetization

November 5

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

📋 Description

• Lead database architecture and strategy for GitLab.com's PostgreSQL infrastructure, designing scalable solutions that support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users while ensuring reliability, performance, and long-term growth planning • Build proactive database health and reliability frameworks that prevent incidents and customer escalations through continuous monitoring, automated remediation, and predictive analytics that surface issues before they impact users • Drive database excellence across engineering teams by establishing best practices, providing expert guidance on migrations and query optimization, and building self-service tools and guardrails that enable teams to succeed while maintaining database health • Own end-to-end observability and operational excellence by designing symptom-based monitoring systems, leading incident mitigation efforts, and transforming learnings into automated, repeatable processes that eliminate recurring issues • Shape GitLab's database platform evolution by evaluating and implementing modern database technologies and data stores, influencing organizational adoption through evidence-based recommendations and hands-on solutions that improve both product capabilities and production stability • Bring a multi-platform mindset by designing and evaluating solutions that will help scale both GitLab.com and be manageable for our self managed customers. • Build partnerships between product and infrastructure teams to ensure that product and team decisions align with the infrastructure team’s priorities. • Break down long-term goals into incremental, actionable steps that deliver customer value • Spend time in the codebase to maintain technical credibility and team empathy • Ship working solutions to customers over creating presentations or theoretical designs • Provide strategic context and leadership while leveraging domain expertise from peers across projects • Deep-dive into critical technical problems for extended periods when needed

🎯 Requirements

• Experience architecting, operating, and optimizing PostgreSQL in large-scale distributed systems with high availability and disaster recovery requirements • Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals including query planner, WAL mechanics, vacuum processes, and storage engine optimization • Proven track record designing and maintaining highly distributed production database environments with automated failover, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities • Strong advocate for infrastructure-as-code, GitOps practices, security hardening, and SRE principles in database operations • Proven ability to debug across the full stack, from low-level systems (Postgres, Elasticsearch source code) to frontend (TypeScript) • Strong hands-on coding skills with experience balancing strategic leadership and technical execution • Track record of delivering results through collaboration with technical experts • You have strong, well-informed opinions on database technologies and data stores backed by factual evidence, and can effectively influence the organization to adopt modern data stack solutions.

🏖️ 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