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- Staff Backend Engineer building Go-based PostgreSQL automation for GitLab’s DevSecOps orchestration platform. Operating scalable database-as-a-service capabilities across remote teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning
- Build automation across infrastructure-as-code tooling and cloud infrastructure, and evaluate operator-based approaches
- Use AI agents in implementation, review, and reduction of repetitive operational work
- Design automation and services for high-throughput, always-on production workloads
- Integrate compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, and managed data services across cloud providers into a coherent PostgreSQL platform
- Build GitLab's PostgreSQL as a service platform with standardized provisioning and lifecycle management
- Collaborate with product management, infrastructure, software delivery, and engineering teams
- Research, design, and implement PostgreSQL performance, scalability, and data-health improvements
- Review database automation and Go changes for safety, maintainability, and performance
- Document automation practices, PostgreSQL operational patterns, and platform guidance
- Build safe, repeatable PostgreSQL major-version upgrade automation and validate changes against production traffic
- Operate services in production end to end and use feedback to guide iterations
Requirements
- Professional software engineering experience working with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments
- Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service product
- Proficiency with Go, including designing, implementing, testing, and reviewing backend services
- Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or similar automation for the lifecycle of stateful services, especially databases; comparable database or infrastructure automation experience accepted
- Comfort with infrastructure as code
- Knowledge of high availability, replication, backups, and system-level performance trade-offs
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in an all-remote, distributed team
- Self-directed work style and effective organizational skills; ability to manage priorities as a manager of one
- Alignment with GitLab's values and operating principles
- Ability to own the technical direction of a major initiative and turn ambiguous problems into executable architecture and plans
- Ability to influence beyond the team, partner with database, infrastructure, and platform teams, and mentor engineers
- Familiarity with Ruby is a plus but is not required
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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