Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async

Overview

Lead a distributed group of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers running GitLab.com's background processing and caching platforms, balancing production reliability with platform projects.

What you'll do

• Lead, hire, and grow a team of site reliability engineers and backend engineers, supporting career development, promotions, and onboarding.
• Own reliability for the job processing and caching platforms, including service-level objectives, error budgets, alerting, and weekly operational reviews.
• Manage capacity planning, support escalations, and incident follow-ups, balancing operational work with roadmap projects and rescoping work when deadlines can't be met.
• Run the team's part of GitLab.com's first-tier on-call rotation, including shift coverage, onboarding, and handovers, and serve as incident commander for high-severity incidents.
• Drive zero-downtime Redis version upgrades and automate operating system patching and reboots.
• Adapt job processing to run in single-tenant and cell-based deployments.
• Own the migration from queue-based job orchestration to a durable workflow engine, defining the first use cases, a measurable migration path, and the roadmap.
• Own quarterly planning and the team roadmap, and clarify shared operational responsibilities with partner teams, including Git storage.
• Take part in on-call or operational support where your team's ownership model requires it.

What you'll need

• Experience managing an engineering team delivering high-performance services at scale, ideally site reliability engineers or infrastructure engineers running production software as a service systems.
• Technical depth in background job processing and caching technologies such as Redis and Sidekiq, sufficient to guide decisions about upgrades, capacity, and failure modes.
• Experience managing reliability against service-level objectives, including defining service-level indicators, setting up burn-rate alerting, and planning capacity.
• Experience running a 24/7 on-call rotation and coordinating high-severity incidents.
• A track record of balancing operational work and incident follow-ups with roadmap projects, and pushing back on scope when deadlines can't be met.
• Experience leading a fully remote team across time zones in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Details

• Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom.
• Shift coverage for the first-tier on-call rotation runs in 8-hour shifts across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.