Senior Backend Engineer — Data Health & Retention (Ruby)

Devconnectplatform; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & ESPP

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group. You will build data frameworks to keep GitLab's datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across multiple deployments.

A focus on retention, lifecycle management, and schema-change enforcement drives sustainable data growth in a fully remote, distributed environment. You will work with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails, shaping scalability features for self-managed customers while collaborating with product, infrastructure,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails and backend design.
• Strong ability to collaborate asynchronously in a distributed remote team.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend features and data frameworks for data at scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments.
• Design and implement data retention and lifecycle management frameworks.
• Collaborate with product management, UX, infra, delivery, and analytics to ship high-performing solutions.
• Review and improve database-related changes for safety, integrity, and performance.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Backend design

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

SQL tooling

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group. You will build data frameworks to keep GitLab's datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across multiple deployments.

A focus on retention, lifecycle management, and schema-change enforcement drives sustainable data growth in a fully remote, distributed environment. You will work with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails, shaping scalability features for self-managed customers while collaborating with product, infrastructure,