Backend Engineer, GitLab

Database Excellence, Ruby

$98-210k

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Plus Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

SQL

Postgres

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

One DevOps platform

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One DevOps platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Be an early applicant

$98-210k

SQL

Postgres

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Company mission

To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

As part of the Data Engineering organization, you'll gain hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails in an all-remote, highly collaborative environment where you'll receive mentorship and grow your skills in data scalability and system design
Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments, including performance tuning and troubleshooting
Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework, with experience designing, implementing, and reviewing backend features and services
Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and performance trade-offs at a system level, especially in data-intensive applications
Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in an all-remote, distributed team
Self-directed work style with effective organizational skills and the ability to manage priorities as a "manager of one."
Alignment with GitLab's values, including transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and contribution to open source practices
Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from related data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement

What the job involves

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group, you'll develop and enhance the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that keep GitLab's application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across GitLab.com and thousands of self-managed instances
You'll work closely with experienced engineers and cross-functional teams to build reliable backend features, learn best practices in data architecture and lifecycle management, and contribute to identifying and addressing performance improvements in our infrastructure
Some examples of our projects:
SQL Traffic Replay Tooling
Background Operations Framework
Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks that make it safe and efficient to work with data at scale across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments
Collaborate with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams to design and ship high-performing, reliable solutions
Review and improve database-related changes from other engineers and external contributors to ensure data integrity, safety, and performance across diverse environments
Design, build, and maintain tooling such as SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks to proactively detect and address scalability and performance issues
Research, design, and implement improvements to database performance, scalability, and data health, including areas like soft delete strategies and database migration testing
Document database best practices, anti-patterns, and data architecture guidance so developers can make informed, consistent decisions
Create proactive tooling and guardrails that help developers detect and remediate potential performance and data issues early in the development lifecycle
The Database Excellence Group is a remote, agile backend team within the Data Engineering organization that builds and maintains the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that enable GitLab teams to work confidently with data at scale across all application datastores
We focus on data scalability, health, and developer enablement for both GitLab.com and thousands of self-managed deployments, partnering closely with infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics stages to ensure data changes are safe, performant, and compatible across diverse environments
We are independent, self-organized contributors who collaborate asynchronously across regions, and we are currently expanding our mission from proactively identifying and addressing saturation points in GitLab.com infrastructure to also delivering new scalability features and data health initiatives for self-managed customers

Our take

GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.

According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.

GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Trustpilot (1.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Sep 2019

$268m

SERIES E

Dec 2018

$20m

SERIES D

Total funding: $435.2m

Company benefits

We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
Generous Paid Time Off

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sid Sijbrandij

(CEO)

Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.

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