Remote, United Kingdom
Remote
Senior
Full Time
remoterubypostgresqlbackendsenior
Requirements
- •Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments, including high availability solutions with automatic failover and zero-downtime data migrations as well as managing large or fast-growing datasets through approaches such as data retention, archiving, partitioning, or lifecycle management.
- •Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework, including designing, implementing, and reviewing backend features.
- •Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and performance trade-offs at a system level.
- •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, collaboration, inclusion, and contribution to open source.
- •Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from related data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains.
- •Willingness to participate in tier 2 database on-call rotation in your time zone.
What You'll Do
- •Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks that make it safe and efficient for GitLab teams to work with data at scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments.
- •Design and build data retention and lifecycle management frameworks, including retention policy enforcement, bulk data removal tooling, and automated identification of tables that need retention policies.
- •Build shift-left guardrails, such as static analysis checks and schema-change-time enforcement, that catch unsustainable data growth patterns before they reach production.
- •Collaborate closely with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams to design and ship high-performing solutions
- •Review and improve database-related changes from other engineers and community contributors, ensuring data integrity, safety, and performance across all deployment scenarios.
- •Design, build, and maintain tooling such as SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks to proactively surface and address scalability and performance issues.
- •Research, design, and implement improvements to data retention and lifecycle management, database performance, scalability, and data health, including areas like soft delete strategies and database migration testing.
- •Document database best practices, patterns to avoid, and data architecture guidance to enable developers to make informed decisions.
- •Develop proactive tooling and guardrails that help developers detect and remediate potential performance and data issues early in the development lifecycle.
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
About GitLab
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