Backend Engineer, Database Excellence; Ruby

Overview

Git Lab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered Dev Sec Ops  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. Git Lab 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.

An overview of this role:
As an Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group, you ll develop and enhance the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that keep Git Lab s application data stores scalable, healthy, and safe across  and thousands of self-managed instances. You ll work closely with experienced 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, you ll gain hands-on experience with Postgre

SQL and Ruby on Rails in an all-remote, highly collaborative environment where you ll receive mentorship and grow your skills in data scalability and system design.

Some examples of our projects:

• SQL Traffic Replay Tooling
• Background Operations Framework

• Develop and iterate backend features and data frameworks that make it safe and efficient to work with data at scale across  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.

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

The Database Excellence Group is a remote, agile backend team within the Data Engineering organization that builds and maintains the frameworks, patterns, and tooling that enable Git Lab teams to work confidently with data at scale across all application data stores. We focus on data scalability, health, and developer enablement for both  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…