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Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

5 hours, 12 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Engineering Manager
Software Development
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GitLab

GitLab: The comprehensive DevOps platform revolutionizing software development with automation, AI workflows, and essential tools for efficient collaboration.

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Description

  • Hire, manage, coach, and enable a high-performing engineering team.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, and engineering leaders to define and deliver the roadmap for Data Insights Platform and related initiatives.
  • Own team delivery, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through.
  • Guide the technical design of distributed data-path components such as ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying.
  • Shape architecture decisions around sharding, partitioning, scaling, failure recovery, and tenant isolation across SaaS, Dedicated, self-managed, and Cells deployments.
  • Design safe and scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith, including query paths and ownership boundaries with product teams.
  • Drive security, privacy, and governance practices for platform data, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
  • Improve operational maturity through observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, monitoring, and runbooks.
  • Collaborate asynchronously across teams to deliver customer-facing reporting capabilities on top of the data platform.
  • Lead the evolution of a modular platform architecture that is ready for AI-driven integrations.

Requirements

  • Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale.
  • Deep distributed systems expertise, including service boundaries, asynchronous pipelines, backpressure, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability.
  • Strong technical background in backend and platform engineering for high-throughput event pipelines and data systems.
  • Experience with change data capture, event streaming or messaging systems, OLAP data stores, query-serving layers, and service-to-service APIs.
  • Ability to hire, develop, and coach team members while contributing technical guidance on architecture and delivery tradeoffs.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills when ownership is split between platform and feature teams.
  • Experience building or operating systems across multiple deployment models, including GitLab.com, Dedicated, self-managed, and cell-based environments.
  • Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
  • Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a strong plus.
  • Passion for reliability, customer outcomes, and engineering and operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $152,800 to $259,200 USD for the listed U.S. level.
  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental Leave.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Remote work with global hiring guidelines, subject to role-specific location eligibility requirements.

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