# Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation (Go) at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-09
- Apply by: 2026-10-24
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8770702002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-staff-backend-engineer-database-automation-go/

## About the role

As a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer with the Database Excellence group , you'll build and evolve database automation and PostgreSQL as a service capabilities for GitLab. The level will be determined during the hiring process. You'll use Go to automate the full lifecycle of PostgreSQL across GitLab's infrastructure, making database operations safer, more consistent, and easier to scale for databases that sit behind high-throughput, always-on internet services.

## What they're looking for

- Build automation that works across infrastructure-as-code tooling and cloud infrastructure, and evaluate operator-based approaches as the platform evolves
- Build for internet scale by designing automation and services for high-throughput, always-on production workloads, where GitLab.com traffic sets the bar for correctness, latency, and availability
- Integrate compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, and managed data services across cloud providers into one coherent PostgreSQL platform instead of creating bespoke setups for each database
- Collaborate closely with product management, infrastructure, software delivery, and other engineering teams to design and ship high-performing solutions
- Research, design, and implement improvements to PostgreSQL performance, scalability, and data health, helping maintain more than 8 months of operational runway for all critical database saturation points
- Review database automation and Go changes from other engineers and contributors, with attention to safety, maintainability, and performance

Tags: Data Engineering