Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation – Go

🕒 September 9

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $152.8k - $259.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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

• Design, build, and maintain Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning • Build automation across infrastructure-as-code tooling and cloud infrastructure, and evaluate operator-based approaches • Use AI agents in implementation, review, and reduction of repetitive operational work • Design automation and services for high-throughput, always-on production workloads • Integrate compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, and managed data services across cloud providers into a coherent PostgreSQL platform • Build GitLab's PostgreSQL as a service platform with standardized provisioning and lifecycle management • Collaborate with product management, infrastructure, software delivery, and engineering teams • Research, design, and implement PostgreSQL performance, scalability, and data-health improvements • Review database automation and Go changes for safety, maintainability, and performance • Document automation practices, PostgreSQL operational patterns, and platform guidance • Build safe, repeatable PostgreSQL major-version upgrade automation and validate changes against production traffic • Operate services in production end to end and use feedback to guide iterations

🎯 Requirements

• Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments • Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service product • Proficiency with Go, including designing, implementing, testing, and reviewing backend services • Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or similar automation for the lifecycle of stateful services, especially databases; comparable database or infrastructure automation experience accepted • Comfort with infrastructure as code • Knowledge of high availability, replication, backups, and system-level performance trade-offs • Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in an all-remote, distributed team • Self-directed work style and effective organizational skills; ability to manage priorities as a manager of one • Alignment with GitLab's values and operating principles • Ability to own the technical direction of a major initiative and turn ambiguous problems into executable architecture and plans • Ability to influence beyond the team, partner with database, infrastructure, and platform teams, and mentor engineers • Familiarity with Ruby is a plus but is not required

🏖️ 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