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.

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.

Operate and scale high-throughput MariaDB/MySQL clusters supporting globally distributed financial services. Responsibilities include database tuning, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, automation, observability, security, containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and partnership with engineering teams. The role also participates in on-call rotations and improves operational reliability through SRE practices, documentation, measurable KPIs, and preventative engineering.