Manager, Engineering – Git & Gitaly Operations

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

📋 Description

• Assemble and lead a team with extensive platform knowledge in Git and Gitaly, focusing on recruiting and nurturing engineers who can manage this infrastructure layer with sound operational judgment.

• Take responsibility for the production reliability of Git and Gitaly throughout GitLab's entire deployment landscape.

• Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems, possessing the technical insight to differentiate between Git internals issues and general infrastructure challenges.

• Create and manage service models for Git and Gitaly that function across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS environments, with a clear understanding of which components are universal and which need to vary.

• Uphold cloud-agnostic architectural and tooling choices, steering clear of designs that rely on a singular hyperscaler's features.

• Collaborate with teams responsible for each deployment model to ensure operational practices remain cohesive rather than splintering into distinct playbooks.

• Implement principles of distributed systems, including consistency, replication, and failure domains, within Gitaly's storage and replication framework.

• Develop an elastic storage and compute strategy for Git repository data, encompassing capacity planning, autoscaling, and usage-based provisioning for GitLab's largest self-managed and SaaS clients.

⛳️ Requirements

• Understanding of GitLab's product and deployment models, as well as how Git and Gitaly facilitate repository operations in self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS settings.

• Practical expertise in Git internals, encompassing the behavior of the protocol, object model, and storage layer under load and at scale, rather than just familiarity with Git usage.

• Solid foundation in distributed systems principles, including consistency, replication, failure management, and horizontal scalability.

• Proven experience in managing production infrastructure across various deployment models, such as self-managed, dedicated or single-tenant, and multi-tenant SaaS, or a credible transition from related experience.

• Background in elastic storage and compute systems, as well as designing consumption-based systems for variable and unpredictable workloads.

• Experience in people management, ideally leading teams focused on site reliability engineering or platform operations.

• Direct experience with Gitaly, libgit2, JGit, or the internals of another Git implementation is a plus.

• Familiarity with operating cloud-agnostic infrastructure across multiple hyperscalers or on-premises setups is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and Development Fund

• Parental Leave