Overview
Join GitLab, the world's largest all-remote company, as a Senior Backend Engineer focusing on database management. This role is pivotal in developing solutions for scalability, application performance, and data growth. You will be part of the Database Group, responsible for enhancing database performance, availability, and reliability across the platform.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features in collaboration with product management, UX, and frontend teams.
- Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution.
- Review database-related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors.
- Document database best practices or patterns to avoid.
- Develop 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.
- Ability to reason about software, algorithms, and performance at a high level.
- Passion for open source.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Self-motivated with strong organizational skills.
Bonus Qualifications
- 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 multicultural team.
- Computer science education or equivalent experience.
About GitLab
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity. As part of the GitLab team, you can work from anywhere with good internet. You'll have the freedom to contribute when and where you do your best work.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Remote work flexibility
- Opportunities for professional development
- Inclusive work environment
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