Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Database Excellence group, building data growth controls, retention frameworks and database tooling for GitLab.com and self-managed instances. Works with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails in a fully remote team.
What you will do
- Build data retention and lifecycle management frameworks, including policy enforcement and bulk removal tooling
- Add guardrails such as static analysis and schema-change checks that catch unsustainable data growth
- Build tooling like SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks
- Review database-related changes from engineers and community contributors
- Document database best practices and data architecture guidance
What they ask for
- Professional experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments, including failover, zero-downtime migrations and large datasets
- Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework
- Ability to reason about software design, algorithms and performance trade-offs
- Strong written communication in an all-remote, async team
- Self-directed work style
- Willing to join the tier 2 database on-call rotation in your time zone
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
