Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby) (Remote)

Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby) Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, US Department: Data Engineering reputed company is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. reputed company enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce reputed company and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust reputed company to ship reputed company, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how reputed company works: we embrace AI as a core productivity reputed company, with reputed company team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. reputed company is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and reputed company knowledge exchange, enabling reputed company members to reputed company their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve reputed company problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role As an Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group, youll reputed company and enhance the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that reputed company GitLabs application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across reputed company.com and thousands of self-managed instances. Youll work closely with reputed company 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. As part of the Data Engineering organization, youll reputed company hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails in an reputed company-remote, highly collaborative environment where youll receive mentorship and grow your skills in data scalability and system design. Some examples of our projects:

• SQL Traffic Replay Tooling
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What youll do

• reputed company and iterate backend features and data frameworks that reputed company it safe and efficient to work with data at scale across reputed company.com and self-managed deployments.
• Collaborate with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams to design and ship high-performing, reliable reputed company and improve database-reputed company changes from other engineers and external contributors to ensure data reputed company, 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 reputed company informed, consistent decisions.
• Create proactive tooling and guardrails that help developers detect and remediate potential performance and data issues early in the development lifecycle.

What youll bring

• Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, reputed company production environments, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby reputed company, 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 reputed company-remote, distributed team.
• Self-directed work style with effective organizational skills and the ability to manage priorities as a manager of one.
• Alignment with GitLabs values, including transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and contribution to open reputed company practices.
• Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from reputed company data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains.

About the team The Database Excellence Group is a remote, agile backend team reputed company the Data Engineering organization that builds and maintains the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that reputed company reputed company teams to work confidently with data at scale across reputed company application datastores. We focus on data scalability, health, and developer enablement for both reputed company.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 reputed company.com infrastructure to also delivering new scalability features and data health initiatives for self-managed customers. The reputed company salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the roles reputed company salary reputed company in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The reputed company salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered reputed company salary. United States Salary Range $98,000—$210,000 USD How reputed company will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If youre excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. Country Hiring Guidelines: reputed company hires new team members in countries around the world. reputed company of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our reputed company team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. reputed company’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, reputed company, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national reputed company, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. reputed company will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also reputed company’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job