Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby)

GitLab Prospects(1 day ago)

RemoteFull TimeMedior$98,000 - $210,000Data Engineering

About this role

An Intermediate Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group at GitLab helps ensure application datastores are scalable, healthy, and safe across GitLab.com and self‑managed instances. The role sits within the Data Engineering organization, offers mentorship and growth in data scalability and system design, and operates in an all‑remote, collaborative environment focused on improving data architecture and developer enablement.

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Required Skills

PostgreSQL
Ruby
Rails
SQL
Performance Tuning
System Design
Backend Development
Data Scalability
Database Migrations
Tooling

About GitLab Prospects

gitlab.com

This company offers an AI-powered DevSecOps platform that integrates security across the software development lifecycle, delivering automated SAST, SCA, secrets and configuration checks, and runtime protections. Its machine‑learning-driven risk prioritization and actionable remediation guidance reduce noise and help teams focus on the highest‑impact vulnerabilities. With native CI/CD and developer workflow integrations plus compliance reporting, the platform is built to help engineering and security teams shift security left and ship cloud‑native applications faster and safer.