Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale: Gitaly

Overview

Manage a deeply technical team of senior and staff engineers building, maintaining, and providing expertise on Gitaly, GitLab's Git data storage tier.

What you'll do

• Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on Gitaly and Gitaly-related infrastructure.
• Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm.
• Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Gitaly architecture.
• Guide the team in balancing roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
• Support your engineers' growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
• Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team.
• Partner with teams like Git and other stakeholders who rely on Gitaly expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity.
• Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Gitaly direction, performance, and scalability.
• Take part in on-call or operational support where your team's ownership model requires it.

What you'll need

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• A management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership, with credibility grounded in consistency, follow-through, and technical judgment.
• Proven ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and the realities of operating a service that is critical to GitLab.
• Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams.
• You're comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings.
• A track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes, and of reasoning 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, with the ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture, ideally in Go or similarly performance-sensitive environments.

Details

• Remote role; location options are Canada, United Kingdom, and United States.
• Subject to location-based eligibility requirements; GitLab's Talent Acquisition team can advise on location questions.