Responsibilities

• 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 

You should apply if:

• you have significant professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large production environments
• you have significant experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• you can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
• you are passionate about open source.
• you have strong written communication skills.
• you are self-motivated and have strong organizational skills.
• you have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term. Within the last 5 years, you've worked at one company for at least 2 years.
• you have demonstrated the ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• you are able to thrive in a fully remote organization
• you are able to use GitLab
• you share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Nice-to-haves

• 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