• Automate operational tasks across all environments, from package updates and configuration changes to provisioning of user-facing services, so manual effort becomes the exception, not the rule. • Design and maintain PostgreSQL database infrastructure components that allow GitLab.com to scale reliably while supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. • Respond to production incidents and platform emergencies, working with peer SREs to diagnose and resolve database-related issues quickly and thoroughly. • Build observability systems that monitor database health, predict capacity needs based on usage patterns, and alert on symptoms rather than outages. • Develop and ship database performance solutions in collaboration with product and engineering teams, including query optimization, migration reviews, and infrastructure recommendations. • Create self-service tools and automation, using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and GitLab ChatOps, that empower engineering teams to manage their own database interactions safely. • Document decisions, learnings, and operational procedures so that knowledge becomes repeatable actions and eventually becomes automation. • Participate in regularly scheduled on-call rotations to ensure GitLab.com remains operational during off-hours and weekends when necessary.