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GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Geo team in our Tenant Scale group, you’ll build and evolve the features that keep GitLab’s largest, most demanding self-managed customers fast, resilient, and always available. You’ll focus on three core areas of the GitLab product: GitLab Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore, designing and implementing secure, well-tested, and performant Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL-backed services that replicate data across geographic regions, provide fault tolerance, and support business continuity. You’ll partner closely with your Engineering Manager to shape technical direction, lead architectural decisions, and turn complex customer needs into iterative solutions, while mentoring other engineers and advising Customer Support on production issues. In your first year, you’ll own key Geo features end to end, drive tangible improvements in system scalability and reliability, and help define technical best practices for distributed, highly available systems within GitLab.
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The Geo team is part of GitLab’s Tenant Scale group and owns GitLab Geo, an enterprise feature that replicates self-managed GitLab deployments across geographic locations to improve performance, resilience, and availability for some of our largest customers. The team is small, backend-focused, and works primarily in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL, collaborating asynchronously across time zones and partnering closely with product, support, and other engineering teams. Together we design, build, and maintain the architecture and services that keep distributed GitLab instances coordinated and consistent, including intelligent proxying so users access the most recent data for everyday workflows and disaster recovery. The team is focused on challenges like proximity-based data access, fault-tolerant replication, and robust backup and restore for large, distributed systems.
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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