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GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a remote and agile way.

The Data Frameworks Group works on developing solutions for data scalability, health, and developer enablement across all of GitLab's application datastores. We build frameworks and provide guidance that help teams make informed decisions about data architecture, placement, and lifecycle management, while ensuring data integrity and safety across both SaaS and self-managed deployments. If building frameworks that enable teams to work confidently with data at scale excites you, please read on!

Most backend developers at GitLab work on all aspects of the application, building features and fixing bugs. The Data Frameworks section is responsible for building the frameworks and tooling that ensure data changes work safely across all of GitLab's deployment scenarios—from GitLab.com to thousands of self-managed instances running different versions.

An Overview of this role

The main focus of the team is to proactively identify saturation points for our gitlab.com infrastructure, and identify and work with teams to implement corrective actions to solve them. With our recent move into the newly formed Data Engineering organization, the team mission is expanding, and we're growing the team accordingly. This change is allowing us to prioritize new efforts that are outside the scope of operating gitlab.com, and include shipping scalability features and data health focused initiatives to our self-managed customers.

This team collaborates closely with our infrastructure data access stage, our software delivery stage, and our analytics stage. We also have regular collaboration with teams across the organization to help them deliver high performing features and improvements.

A few examples of our current projects:

A few examples of upcoming projects in our evolving scope:

What you'll do

Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution
Reviewing database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
Documenting database best practices or patterns to avoid
Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance

What you'll bring

Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments
Significant experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance at a high level
You are passionate about open source
Strong written communication skills
Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Bonus qualifications

Experience with Distributed Messaging Queues (Kafka, NATS)
Experience with migrating large production datasets between data stores
Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
Product company experience
Experience working with a remote team
Enterprise software company experience
Developer platform/tool industry experience
Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
Computer science education or equivalent experience
Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’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, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, 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. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’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.

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