What you'll do

• Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
• Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution
• Reviewing database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
• Documenting database best practices or patterns to avoid
• Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
• Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance 

What you'll bring

• Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments
• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance at a high level
• You are passionate about open source
• Strong written communication skills
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Bonus qualifications

• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Product company experience
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range

$98,000 - $210,000 USD

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.