Engineering Manager — Async Architecture & Reliability (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 472,000 - 709,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Parental leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async to lead a distributed team responsible for the background processing layer. You will drive reliability for job processing and caching platforms, including Redis-based systems and the migration to a durable workflow engine.

You will manage capacity, on-call rotations, and incident response while balancing operational work with roadmap initiatives across global time zones.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an engineering team delivering high-performance services at scale.
• Technical depth in background job processing and caching (Redis/Sidekiq).
• Experience running a 24/7 on-call rotation with incident management.
• Ability to balance operational work with roadmap projects and push back on scope when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and grow a distributed team of SREs and backend engineers.
• Own reliability of job processing and caching platforms, with SLIs, error budgets, alerts, and reviews.
• Manage capacity, escalations, and incident follow-ups; balance with roadmap work.

Skills

Team management

Redis

Sidekiq

SRE practices

On-call management

Remote team leadership

Tools

Redis

Sidekiq

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async to lead a distributed team responsible for the background processing layer. You will drive reliability for job processing and caching platforms, including Redis-based systems and the migration to a durable workflow engine.

You will manage capacity, on-call rotations, and incident response while balancing operational work with roadmap initiatives across global time zones.