2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of a database migration validation and test framework through production adoption.
- Contribute to a dependency graph migration system supporting safe ordering, parallel execution, and three-phase low-downtime upgrades.
- Mentor intermediate engineers through pairing, code review, and design feedback.
- Document technical decisions asynchronously for distributed teams.
- Review GitLab schema migrations for safety, backward compatibility, and reliability.
- Collaborate with Distribution, Quality Assurance, Database Architecture, Database Automation, and database framework teams.
- At Staff level, author and defend architecture proposals and represent the team in cross-company technical reviews.
Requirements
- Deep production experience with Ruby on Rails and Active Record migration internals, or comparable depth with Django, Ecto, or another migration framework.
- Production PostgreSQL experience involving large-table schema changes, locking behavior, and data definition language failure modes under load.
- Demonstrated experience leading a system from design through implementation and adoption.
- Experience mentoring engineers through pairing, code review, and technical feedback.
- Strong written communication and the ability to work independently in an asynchronous, distributed environment.
- Sound judgment balancing reliability, safety, backward compatibility, and delivery needs.
- Interest in serving as a senior technical presence for an India-based engineering group while collaborating across regions.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement, subject to country-specific eligibility requirements.
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
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About GitLab
GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.