<div class="content-intro"><p>GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform" data-sk="tooltip_parent">DevSecOps Platform</a>&nbsp;used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/company/mission" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/company/mission" data-sk="tooltip_parent">mission</a>&nbsp;makes it clear that we believe in a world where everyone can contribute. We make that possible at GitLab by running&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/using-gitlab-at-gitlab" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/using-gitlab-at-gitlab" data-sk="tooltip_parent">our operations</a>&nbsp;on our product and staying aligned with&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values" data-sk="tooltip_parent">our values</a>. Learn more about&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="https://vimeo.com/gitlab/gettoknowgitlab" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://vimeo.com/gitlab/gettoknowgitlab" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Life at GitLab</a>.</p></div><div class="section page-centered">
<p>At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/14/remote-agile-at-gitlab/">remote and agile</a> way.</p>
<p>The<a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-platform/data_stores/database/"> Database Group</a> works on developing solutions for scalability, application performance, data growth and developer enablement, especially where it concerns interactions with the database. In support of our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency">Transparency</a> value, the <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-platform/data_stores/database/">Database Group</a> page includes links to the boards listing our current work in flight, team meeting recordings as well as our roadmap. Hopefully this is the type of work that gets you excited about joining the team, if so please read on!</p>
<p>Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application. The <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-platform/data_stores/database/">Database Group</a> is responsible for making application changes to improve database performance, availability and reliability.&nbsp; Additionally, the <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/backend-engineer/#database">Backend Engineer, Database</a> will be expected to review database related code with the goal of eventually becoming a <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/database/#database-maintainer">Database Maintainer</a>.</p>
<h3>The Work</h3>
<p>Our work can be grouped into a couple of main categories: responsive and enablement. Categories that we consider responsive work are areas that require our immediate or near-term attention to help with performance, scaling and SQL expertise. Typically these involve reviewing slow performing queries and providing guidance on how to improve these queries.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Enablement, as the name suggests, is about enabling development efficiencies for our greater development community and improving our scalability story for GitLab.com. We have some lofty goals on what we’d like to achieve in the next year. We cannot do all of the work we have identified by ourselves, so we are creating tools to enable teams to implement scalable solutions. Below is a list of a few of these initiatives:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2023">Database Partitioning</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/core-platform-section/-/epics/3">Implementing cluster-wide unique identifiers for Cells Topology Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/10703">Load Balancer Improvements</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/database-team/-/epics/9">Automated database migration testing</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>What you'll do</h3>
<ul>
<li>Develop new features in <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#collaboration">collaboration</a> with our product management, UX, and frontend teams</li>
<li>Keep changes small and <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration">iterate</a> towards the best solution</li>
<li>Reviewing database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors</li>
<li>Documenting database best practices or patterns to avoid</li>
<li>Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues</li>
<li>Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<h3>What you'll bring</h3>
<ul>
<li>Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments</li>
<li>Significant experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks</li>
<li>You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance at a high level</li>
<li>You are passionate about open source</li>
<li>Strong written communication skills</li>
<li>Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills</li>
<li>You share our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values">values</a>, and work in accordance with those values</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bonus qualifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup</li>
<li>Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor</li>
<li>Product company experience</li>
<li>Experience working with a remote team</li>
<li>Enterprise software company experience</li>
<li>Developer platform/tool industry experience</li>
<li>Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team</li>
<li>Computer science education or equivalent experience</li>
<li>Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools</li>
</ul>
</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><em><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. 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, and alignment with market data. See more information on our </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLBeneUS" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">benefits</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;"> and </span><a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-link="https://bit.ly/GLequity" data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#1155cc;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-family:''Arial'';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">equity</a><span data-sheets-formula-bar-text-style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Arial';font-style:normal;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;">. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.</span></em></p></div><div class="title">California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$98,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$210,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><hr>
<p><strong>Country Hiring Guidelines: </strong>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Privacy Policy: </strong>Please review our <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Policy.</a> Your privacy is important to us.</p>
<p>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&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-employment-opportunity-policy" target="_blank">GitLab’s EEO Policy</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices" target="_blank">EEO is the Law</a>. If you have a disability or special need that requires&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#reasonable-accommodation" target="_blank">accommodation</a>, please let us know during the&nbsp;<a href="https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-to-our-interview-process" target="_blank">recruiting process</a>.</p></div>

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive
[DevSecOps Platform](https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/devops-platform) used
by more than 100,000 organizations. Our
[mission](https://about.gitlab.com/company/mission) makes it clear that we
believe in a world where everyone can contribute. We make that possible at
GitLab by running [our operations](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/using-
gitlab-at-gitlab) on our product and staying aligned with [our
values](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values). Learn more about [Life at
GitLab](https://vimeo.com/gitlab/gettoknowgitlab).

At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual
contributors who work together as a tight team in a [remote and
agile](https://about.gitlab.com/2015/09/14/remote-agile-at-gitlab/) way.

The[ Database
Group](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-
platform/data_stores/database/) works on developing solutions for scalability,
application performance, data growth and developer enablement, especially
where it concerns interactions with the database. In support of our
[Transparency](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency) value,
the [Database
Group](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-
platform/data_stores/database/) page includes links to the boards listing our
current work in flight, team meeting recordings as well as our roadmap.
Hopefully this is the type of work that gets you excited about joining the
team, if so please read on!

Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features,
fixing bugs, and generally improving the application. The [Database
Group](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure/core-
platform/data_stores/database/) is responsible for making application changes
to improve database performance, availability and reliability.  Additionally,
the [Backend Engineer, Database](https://about.gitlab.com/job-
families/engineering/backend-engineer/#database) will be expected to review
database related code with the goal of eventually becoming a [Database
Maintainer](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/database/#database-
maintainer).

### The Work

Our work can be grouped into a couple of main categories: responsive and
enablement. Categories that we consider responsive work are areas that require
our immediate or near-term attention to help with performance, scaling and SQL
expertise. Typically these involve reviewing slow performing queries and
providing guidance on how to improve these queries.

Enablement, as the name suggests, is about enabling development efficiencies
for our greater development community and improving our scalability story for
GitLab.com. We have some lofty goals on what we’d like to achieve in the next
year. We cannot do all of the work we have identified by ourselves, so we are
creating tools to enable teams to implement scalable solutions. Below is a
list of a few of these initiatives:

  * [Database Partitioning](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2023)
  * [Implementing cluster-wide unique identifiers for Cells Topology Service](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/core-platform-section/-/epics/3)
  * [Load Balancer Improvements](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/10703)
  * [Automated database migration testing](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/database-team/-/epics/9)

### What you'll do

  * Develop new features in [collaboration](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#collaboration) with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
  * Keep changes small and [iterate](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration) 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](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values), and work in accordance with those values

### Bonus qualifications

  * 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



 _The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for
residents of listed locations only. 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,
and alignment with market data. See more information on
our[benefits](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-
rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) and
[equity](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/). Sales roles are
also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base
salary._

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range

$98,000--$210,000 USD

* * *

**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.  

**Privacy Policy:** Please review our [Recruitment Privacy
Policy.](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/candidate/faq/recruitment-
privacy-policy/) Your privacy is important to us.

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](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-usa/#equal-
employment-opportunity-policy) and [EEO is the
Law](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/labor-and-employment-notices/#eeoc-us-
equal-employment-opportunity-commission-notices). If you have a disability or
special need that requires
[accommodation](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-policies/inc-
usa/#reasonable-accommodation), please let us know during the [recruiting
process](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/#adjustments-
to-our-interview-process).

