# Senior Backend Engineer - Database Change Management

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to work on replacing its sequential database migration system with a dependency graph model. The ideal candidate will lead the design and delivery of a migration validation and test framework, contribute to a dependency graph migration system, mentor engineers, and collaborate with various teams.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design and delivery of the migration validation and test framework from initial approach through production use.

- Contribute to a dependency graph migration system that supports safe ordering, parallel execution, and three-phase, low-downtime upgrades.

- Mentor intermediate engineers through pairing, code review, and design feedback.

- Make and document technical decisions asynchronously.

- Review schema migrations from engineers across GitLab for safety, backward compatibility, and reliability.

- Collaborate with Distribution, Quality Assurance, Database Architecture, Database Automation, and database framework teams.

**Requirements:**

- Deep experience with Ruby on Rails in large production codebases or comparable depth in another framework's migration system.

- Production PostgreSQL experience, including schema changes on large tables and data definition language failure modes under load.

- A track record of leading delivery of a system from design through implementation and adoption.

- Experience mentoring engineers and strong written communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- PostgreSQL
- database migration
- dependency graph model

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