GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby)

Worldwide

Senior

REMOTE

GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Database Excellence group, focused on building data frameworks and tooling that keep GitLab's application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe. The role centers on proactive data growth controls, retention and lifecycle management frameworks, and shift-left guardrails for GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. You'll work hands-on with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails in a fully remote, asynchronous environment, collaborating across infrastructure, product, and analytics teams to ensure data changes are safe and performant at scale.

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Database performance tuning

Data retention and lifecycle management

Zero-downtime migrations

High availability database solutions

Static analysis tooling

Asynchronous remote collaboration

Backend software engineering

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