Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale – Gitaly

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🔥 3 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on Gitaly and related infrastructure • Build a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and ownership • Drive complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Gitaly architecture • Balance roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities • Support engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities • Foster written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team • Partner with Git and other stakeholder teams on performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity • Represent the team in cross-functional discussions about Gitaly direction, performance, and scalability • Guide development, maintenance, tooling, scalability improvements, and new data formats for Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development • Management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership • Ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and service operations • Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams • Track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes • Ability to reason from fundamentals about maintainability, technical debt, and long-term platform viability • Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other low-level infrastructure domains • Ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture, ideally in Go or similarly performance-sensitive environments • Expected to incorporate AI into daily workflows

🏖️ 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 • Remote work arrangement