Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation (Go) is open at GitLab (Remote, Canada; Remote, United States). The posting gives a salary of $153K - $259K. Posted on Sep 9, 2026, and still on GitLab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and maintain Go-based automation that manages the full PostgreSQL lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning, reducing reactive operational work that currently takes more than 80% of the team's time. Build automation that works across infrastructure-as-code tooling and cloud infrastructure, and evaluate operator-based approaches as the platform…
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