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GitLab · 6 days ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Tenant Scale, Geo

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Geo team, you’ll build and evolve features that keep GitLab’s largest self-managed customers fast and resilient, focusing on GitLab Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore.

Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsOpen SourceSaaS

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Design and develop secure, well-tested, and performant backend features and improvements for the GitLab Geo product, focusing on replication, disaster recovery, and backup and restore

Partner with your Engineering Manager and product stakeholders to assess technical feasibility, shape solution approaches, and align implementations with customer needs

Deliver proof-of-concept implementations to inform architectural choices and guide technical discussions within the Tenant Scale group

Break down and drive complex technical projects in an iterative way, owning features end to end from proposal through deployment and ongoing maintenance

Lead architectural design decisions for Geo Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore, solving challenges in distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems

Mentor and support other engineers by sharing best practices for Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and distributed system design through code reviews and pairing

Collaborate with Customer Support and other engineering teams to investigate and resolve production issues, feeding real-world learnings back into product and architecture improvements

Qualification

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLDistributed systemsFault-tolerant systemsBackupRestoreMentoring engineersQueueing systemsConfiguration managementAsynchronous collaborationLearning new technologies