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Backend Engineer, Data Frameworks at GitLab, Remote (Global)

The main focus of the team is to proactively identify saturation points for our gitlab.com infrastructure, and identify and work with teams to implement corrective actions to solve them. With our recent move into the newly formed Data Engineering organization, the team mission is expanding, and we’re growing the team accordingly. This change is allowing us to prioritize new efforts that are outside the scope of operating gitlab.com, and include shipping scalability features and data health focused initiatives to our self-managed customers.

This team collaborates closely with our infrastructure data access stage, our software delivery stage, and our analytics stage. We also have regular collaboration with teams across the organization to help them deliver high performing features and improvements.

A few examples of our current projects:

• SQL Traffic Replay Tooling
• Background Operations Framework

A few examples of upcoming projects in our evolving scope:

• Exploring strategies for soft deleting data
• Enhanced testing of database migrations

What you’ll do

• Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
• Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution
• Reviewing database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
• Documenting database best practices or patterns to avoid
• Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
• Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance

What you’ll bring

• Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments
• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance at a high level
• You are passionate about open source
• Strong written communication skills
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Bonus qualifications

• Experience with Distributed Messaging Queues (Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with migrating large production datasets between data stores
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Product company experience
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.