As our Principal Database Engineer, you'll architect the data platform foundation that powers both GitLab.com and thousands of enterprise deployments worldwide. This is an opportunity to design and build industry-leading database systems that enable GitLab's next phase of growth. You'll transform how we approach data reliability, scale our platform to support exponential growth, and establish patterns that become the gold standard for database development and operations.
Seeking a Principal Database Engineer to lead the design, optimization, and reliability of our database systems. This role blends architectural strategy with hands-on performance engineering. You will design scalable database solutions, enforce best practices, and proactively ensure our production systems remain fast, resilient, and secure. You will be the organization’s database thought leader—setting the blueprint for data architecture.
The Data Engineer is vital to building our future-state architecture by modernizing how public health data moves, transforms, and informs decision-making at scale. You will lead the design and implementation of next-generation pipelines, ensure data reliability and compliance, and guide integration teams through migration from legacy systems.