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# Intermediate Backend Engineer – Database Excellence
About the Role:
GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join the Database Excellence group. This is a fully remote, all-remote position focused on developing and enhancing frameworks and tooling that keep application datastores scalable, healthy, and secure across GitLab.com and self-managed GitLab instances. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, develop your understanding of data architecture practices, and contribute to improving database and application performance in a distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance frameworks and tooling for application datastores.* Help maintain scalable, healthy, and secure datastores across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.* Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and technical teams.* Apply and develop data architecture practices.* Contribute to application and datastore performance improvements.* Work effectively in a distributed, fully remote engineering environment.
Required Qualifications:
- Backend software engineering experience appropriate for an Intermediate Backend Engineer role.* Experience working with application datastores.* Ability to contribute to scalable and reliable software systems.* Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.* Ability to work effectively in a distributed environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
The original job description does not specify additional preferred qualifications.
Skills & Competencies* Backend engineering* Application datastore development and maintenance* Scalability and performance* Database health and reliability* Data architecture* Framework and tooling development* Distributed systems and environments* Cross-functional collaboration* Technical problem solving
Education & Experience:
Education:Not specified in the original job description.Experience:The position is identified as an Intermediate Backend Engineer role. Specific years of experience or detailed experience requirements are not specified in the provided job description.
Work Arrangement & Schedule* Work Arrangement: Fully remote / all-remote* Location: Remote; no specific geographic location is provided in the supplied description.* Employment Type: Not specified in the original job description.* Posted: September 19, 2026
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation and benefits are not specified in the provided job description.
Company & TeamGitLab's Database Excellence group focuses on the frameworks, tooling, and practices needed to support scalable, healthy, and safe application datastores across GitLab.com and self-managed instances. The role provides an opportunity to collaborate across teams and contribute to database performance and data architecture in a distributed environment.