Director of Engineering – Database Excellence

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $230.4k - $345.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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GitLab

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform in line with company strategy • Own database capacity and availability outcomes for GitLab.com, and communicate database risk to senior leadership • Lead and coach three Engineering Managers and develop Staff-plus engineers into leaders • Drive cross-division technical decisions using data, partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps • Partner with Product to prioritize database platform investments and make infrastructure tradeoffs in the context of product outcomes • Own the hiring plan, organization design, retention, and performance management for teams across regions • Set quarterly objectives and key results and engineering key performance indicators for the stage, and manage the database infrastructure budget with FinOps • Serve as an escalation point for database incidents, standardize effective processes, and keep the handbook current • Lead the Database Excellence stage supporting GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated • Guide long-range platform decisions and contribute to GitLab’s company-wide datastore strategy, including Cells partitioning

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading managers of managers, including coaching newer managers • Experience working hands-on with PostgreSQL at scale, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, performance, and large production clusters • Experience using data to make strategic technical decisions and connect database platform investments and tradeoffs with product outcomes • Experience supporting software that customers run themselves, or working through the self-managed upgrade challenge • Experience leading backend engineering teams that own production infrastructure, applying site reliability engineering practices including service level objectives, on-call operations, incident management, cost management, and automation • Experience communicating clearly in writing in an asynchronous, handbook-first company • Experience leading globally distributed remote teams • Experience with Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, object storage, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, managed database services, FinOps, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or platform and infrastructure organizations is a plus • Ability 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