[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Tenant Scale, Geo

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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. 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 Skills • Professional experience developing backend services in production environments using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL • Background designing and implementing fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available systems for large-scale applications • Hands-on experience with queueing and messaging systems, and with provisioning or configuration management tools • Ability to lead architectural design decisions, define technical approaches, and drive complex system changes from concept through delivery • Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, including sharing and promoting backend and distributed systems best practices • Familiarity with backup and restore patterns for databases, application configuration, and infrastructure as code in distributed environments • Comfortable working asynchronously with cross-functional partners and translating customer or support feedback into technical improvements • Openness to learning new technologies and applying transferable skills, even when experience does not align with every listed requirement 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 • Home office support Company Overview • GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://about.gitlab.com. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job