Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby)

About the Role

Join our high-performing, geo-remote team to drive the development of GitLab's critical Geo product, focusing on replication, disaster recovery, and backup/restore for our largest enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features and improvements for the GitLab Geo product, ensuring security, test coverage, and high performance with a focus on architectural excellence.
• Lead architectural design decisions and drive technical strategy for complex system challenges within distributed systems.
• Take ownership of feature implementation, delivering complex technical projects iteratively.
• Mentor junior engineers, guide their technical development, and establish technical best practices within the team.
• Assess technical feasibility of feature requests and deliver proof-of-concept proposals to guide technical discussions.
• Provide technical advice to the Customer Support team to resolve complex customer issues.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Proven experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling highly available systems.
• Practical experience with queueing and messaging systems.
• Experience with provisioning tools.
• Experience mentoring and leading engineers.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with tools for backup and restore of databases, application configuration, and infrastructure as code for large distributed applications.

Role Impact

As a key member of the Tenant Scale/Geo team, your work directly supports GitLab's largest customers by ensuring data durability, proximity-based access acceleration, and robust disaster recovery capabilities.