Remote Backend Engineer - Database Excellence

Ruby Developer; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth development fund

Parental leave

Home office support

Job summary

GitLab, a fully remote, all-remote company, is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group. You will develop and enhance frameworks and tooling to keep application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, learn data architecture practices, and improve performance in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or a similar Ruby framework.
• Ability to reason about software design and performance trade-offs at scale.
• Strong written communication and experience working asynchronously in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Backend design

Data architecture

Async teamwork

Tools

SQL tooling

Job description

GitLab, a fully remote, all-remote company, is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group. You will develop and enhance frameworks and tooling to keep application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, learn data architecture practices, and improve performance in a distributed environment.