Senior Backend Engineer — Data Retention (Ruby, PostgreSQL)

Stackd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and evolve data frameworks that scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments. You will focus on retention and lifecycle management, schema-change enforcement, and data health tooling in a fully remote, agile environment.

You'll work with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails, collaborate with multiple teams, and help advance data safety, performance, and scalability across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework.
• Ability to reason about software design and performance trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks for data at scale.
• Design and build data retention and lifecycle management frameworks.
• Collaborate with product, UX, infrastructure, and analytics teams.
• Review database-related changes to ensure data integrity and performance.
• Develop tooling such as SQL traffic replay and background operations.

Skills

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Data Management

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and evolve data frameworks that scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments. You will focus on retention and lifecycle management, schema-change enforcement, and data health tooling in a fully remote, agile environment.

You'll work with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails, collaborate with multiple teams, and help advance data safety, performance, and scalability across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.