Build backend data frameworks and tooling that keep GitLab’s datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across SaaS and self-managed deployments. Develop retention and lifecycle controls, schema-change guardrails, bulk data removal tools, SQL traffic replay, and background operations frameworks. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, review database changes, improve performance and migration safety, document best practices, and participate in a tier 2 database on-call rotation.

Build and optimize high-performance Elixir/Phoenix backend systems with PostgreSQL at scale. Design efficient schemas, queries, indexes, batching strategies, migrations, and concurrency patterns. Diagnose database bottlenecks, support large document volumes, and improve reliability across cloud and self-hosted deployments. Contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, platform architecture, tooling, and customer success while collaborating with a remote-first team.

Manage and optimize business-critical PostgreSQL databases and cloud-based SaaS infrastructure. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, security, patching, upgrades, migrations, SaaS administration, SSO, IAM, monitoring, automation, incident response, Linux and cloud administration, compliance, and continuous improvement.