Senior Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby)
gitlab · Luxembourg · Remote-friendly
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- Company
- gitlab
- Location
- Luxembourg
- Posted
- October 31, 2026
About this job
An overview of this role As a Senior Backend Engineer with the Database Excellence group, you'll build and evolve the data frameworks and tooling that keep GitLab's application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across both GitLab.com and thousands of self-managed instances. A primary focus for this role is building proactive data growth controls for GitLab.com, including retention and lifecycle management frameworks, enforcement of retention policies at schema-change time, and tooling that keeps database growth sustainable as AI-driven development accelerates how quickly data accumulates. You'll help teams across GitLab reason confidently about data architecture, placement, and lifecycle management, while proactively identifying saturation points in our GitLab.com infrastructure and…
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