about 2 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend functionality for Geo, disaster recovery, and backup and restore using Ruby on Rails and related services.
- Improve repository and data replication and verification workflows for performance, correctness, and operational simplicity.
- Use PostgreSQL features, including logical replication, to support GitLab Dedicated migrations and future Cells architectures.
- Measure and reduce replication lag and verification failures using logs, metrics, and alerts.
- Collaborate with Database Engineering, Infrastructure, GitLab Dedicated, Tenant Scale, and other teams on Geo and migration initiatives.
- Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews, converting findings into product and operational improvements.
- Partner with Support, Site Reliability Engineering, and Customer Success on customer escalations, complex migrations, and incidents.
- Own projects from proposal and design through implementation, review, rollout, and production monitoring, and provide constructive merge request feedback.
Requirements
- Production experience building and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including replication, indexing, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of distributed systems, data replication, consistency models, eventual consistency, and failure modes.
- Experience building and operating background job or worker systems such as Sidekiq, including monitoring and retry strategies.
- Knowledge of replication and verification patterns such as ordered event delivery and checksums, with experience debugging replication lag.
- Experience operating or debugging large production deployments across installation methods, operating systems, or cloud providers.
- Familiarity with recovery point objective, recovery time objective, planned failover, and backup and restore for stateful systems.
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Fully remote work arrangement, subject to country-specific eligibility
Tech Stack
PostgreSQLRuby on Rails
Categories
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