Engineering Manager, Async Infra & Reliability (Remote)

GitLab Inc.; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 593,000 - 830,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async, to lead a distributed team of Site Reliability and Backend Engineers.

You will balance production reliability with platform projects, including Redis upgrades and a migration to a durable workflow engine. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, incident response, capacity planning, and coordinating with partner teams during on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-performance engineering teams delivering SaaS platforms.
• Strong reliability focus with SLIs/SLOs and incident management.
• Global/remote team leadership across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, and grow a distributed team of SREs and backend engineers.
• Own reliability for job processing and caching platforms with SLOs and budgets.
• Manage capacity, escalations, incident follow-ups, and roadmaps.
• Run on-call rotation and act as incident commander for critical incidents.
• Drive Redis upgrades and automate OS patching/reboots.
• End-to-end migration from queue-based orchestration to durable workflow engine.
• Support quarterly planning and cross-team roadmap alignment.

Skills

Engineering management

Site reliability

Infrastructure engineering

Remote team leadership

Incident management

On-call leadership

Tools

Redis

Sidekiq

Job description

GitLab Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async, to lead a distributed team of Site Reliability and Backend Engineers.

You will balance production reliability with platform projects, including Redis upgrades and a migration to a durable workflow engine. Responsibilities include hiring, mentoring, incident response, capacity planning, and coordinating with partner teams during on-call rotations.