Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Tenant Scale, Geo

About the Role

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.How GitLab will support you

Requirements

Familiarity with backup and restore patterns for databases, application configuration, and infrastructure as code in distributed environments Comfortable working asynchronously with cross-functional partners and translating customer or support feedback into technical improvements Openness to learning new technologies and applying transferable skills, even when experience does not align with every listed requirement

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off  Team Member Resource Groups Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan Growth and Development Fund Parental leave  Home office support

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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