Backend Engineer

# INTERMEDIATE BACKEND ENGINEER — DATABASE EXCELLENCE
## About the Role
GitLab is a fully remote, all-remote company seeking an **Intermediate Backend Engineer** to join the **Database Excellence** group. In this role, you will develop and enhance frameworks and tooling that help keep application datastores scalable, healthy, and secure across **GitLab.com and self-managed GitLab instances**.
You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, develop your understanding of data architecture practices, and contribute to improving application and database performance in a distributed environment.
## Key Responsibilities
* Develop and enhance backend frameworks and tooling for application datastores.
* Help maintain scalable, healthy, and safe application data stores across GitLab.com and self-managed instances.
* Contribute to database and data architecture initiatives in a distributed environment.
* Improve application and datastore performance.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support database and backend engineering objectives.
* Apply and develop data architecture practices as part of ongoing engineering work.
## Required Qualifications
* Backend engineering experience appropriate for an intermediate-level engineering role.
* Ability to develop and enhance backend frameworks and tooling.
* Experience working with application datastores or database-related systems.
* Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
* Ability to work effectively in a distributed, remote environment.
## Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with data architecture practices.
* Experience improving application or database performance.
* Experience supporting scalable and reliable datastore environments.
* Experience working with both cloud-hosted and self-managed application environments.
## Skills & Competencies
* Backend software engineering
* Database and datastore technologies
* Scalability and performance optimization
* Data architecture
* Framework and tooling development
* Cross-functional collaboration
* Distributed systems and environments
* Problem-solving and technical learning
* Remote collaboration
## Education & Experience
**Education:**
No specific educational qualification is stated in the provided job description.
**Experience:**
Intermediate-level backend engineering experience, with relevant experience in application datastores, scalability, performance, and distributed environments.
## Work Arrangement & Schedule
* **Work Arrangement:** Fully remote / all-remote
* **Work Environment:** Distributed engineering organization
* **Employment Type:** Not specified in the provided job description
* **Schedule:** Not specified in the provided job description
## Compensation & Benefits
Compensation, benefits, and additional employment details are not specified in the provided job description.
## Compliance / Additional Information
* The role supports both **GitLab.com and self-managed GitLab instances**.
* The position is part of GitLab's **Database Excellence** group.

Work arrangement
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