10 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop backend features and data frameworks for safe, efficient work with data at scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments.
- Design retention and lifecycle management frameworks, including policy enforcement, bulk data removal, and automated identification of tables requiring retention policies.
- Build shift-left guardrails, static analysis checks, and schema-change-time enforcement to prevent unsustainable data growth.
- Design and maintain SQL traffic replay and background operations tooling to identify scalability and performance issues.
- Improve database performance, scalability, data health, soft delete strategies, and database migration testing.
- Review database-related changes for data integrity, safety, and performance across deployment scenarios.
- Document database best practices, anti-patterns, and data architecture guidance.
- Collaborate with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams.
- Participate in a tier 2 database on-call rotation in the employee’s time zone.
Requirements
- Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments.
- Experience with high-availability solutions, automatic failover, zero-downtime data migrations, and large or fast-growing datasets.
- Experience with data retention, archiving, partitioning, or lifecycle management approaches.
- Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework, including backend feature design, implementation, and review.
- Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and system-level performance trade-offs.
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in a distributed team.
- Self-directed work style, organizational skills, and ability to manage priorities as a manager of one.
- Alignment with GitLab’s values, including transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and open-source contribution.
- Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from related data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains.
- Willingness to participate in the tier 2 database on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement with location-based eligibility requirements that may vary by role.
- 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.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.