Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale – Gitaly

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee a team of senior and staff engineers focused on Gitaly and associated infrastructure.

• Cultivate a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and ownership.

• Lead complex, long-term initiatives related to performance, scalability, maintainability, and the fundamental architecture of Gitaly.

• Balance the delivery of the roadmap with GitLab's product and infrastructure priorities.

• Aid in the growth of engineers through feedback, mentorship, career development, and challenging opportunities.

• Promote effective written communication and asynchronous collaboration within a completely distributed team.

• Collaborate with Git and other stakeholder teams on performance, feature design, and clarity of the roadmap.

• Represent the team in cross-functional conversations regarding Gitaly's direction, performance, and scalability.

• Guide the development, maintenance, tooling, scalability enhancements, and introduction of new data formats for Gitaly, which serves as GitLab’s Git data storage solution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development for direct reports.

• A management philosophy focused on fostering engineer autonomy and ownership.

• Capability to navigate highly specialized engineers through uncertainty, structured discussions, critical technical trade-offs, and operational services.

• Excellent written communication skills and proficiency in remote, asynchronous collaboration across distributed teams spanning multiple time zones.

• A successful track record of delivering on ambiguous, long-term technical projects under pressure with well-defined outcomes.

• Ability to think critically about maintainability, technical debt, and the long-term viability of platforms.

• Hands-on experience with version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other foundational infrastructure domains.

• Ability to engage effectively with systems code and architecture, preferably in Go or similar performance-sensitive environments.

• Expected to integrate AI into everyday workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to enhance your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Participation in Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.

• Remote work arrangement.