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Engineering Manager, Data Access: Durability

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Qualifications:

Experience leading SaaS systems or SRE teams, Strong technical background in relevant field, Experience hiring and growing engineering talent, Deep technical understanding of SaaS applications.

Key responsabilities:

  • Lead the Durability team
  • Partner with Product Manager for scalable solutions
  • Manage Agile projects and improve product quality
  • Participate in on-call rotation
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Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

As an Engineering Manager, Durability, your primary focus lies on leading a world-class team and putting them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive and the team produces results.

You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable product. Your team of SREs and Backend Engineers will be globally distributed and you will work in an async way to safeguard and secure customer data that is stored by the GitLab application, and set guidelines for accessing and processing it.

What you will do
  • Lead the Durability team within the Data Access sub-department according to GitLab’s values and leadership principles
  • Partner with a Product Manager and other engineering teams to ensure a scalable, reliable, performant, and sustainable storage solution for data storage and access patterns
  • Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces Results for Customers
  • Hire and grow an incredible team that lives our values
  • Manage Agile projects
  • Improve the quality, security and performance of the product
  • Participate in the Incident Manager on-call rotation
What you will bring
  • Experience leading SaaS systems, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
  • Experience leading software engineering teams
  • Strong technical background in a relevant field
  • Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate this to understandable language relevant to an audience of varied technical abilities
  • Experience hiring, coaching, growing, and retaining Engineering talent
  • Deep technical understanding of running SaaS applications and infrastructure at scale
  • Experience leading a team on a large-scale consumer platform
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
About the team

The Durability team serves as architects and thought partners on data access matters, also closing the loop between operational and development work. The team partners directly with Gitaly, and owns the Redis and Sidekiq setup as well as object storage, in operational aspects as well as developing interfaces and influencing access patterns. In addition, the team is responsible for developing and maintaining GitLab’s toolchain for backups and restores.


Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

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Other Skills

  • Team Management
  • Collaboration
  • Team Building
  • Coaching
  • Leadership

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