Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git
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GitLabDevSecOps
Remote, Americas; Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom, Multi-timezoneFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GitGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership.
- Proven ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, and high-stakes technical tradeoffs.
- Experience with the realities of upstream open source development, including community review and long feedback cycles.
- Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills.
- Comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews.
- Track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects.
- 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 C, Go, or similarly performance-sensitive environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-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 Git architecture.
- Help the team balance upstream open source development 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 downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise.
- Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction.
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