Engineering Manager, Git & Scale (Remote)

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Growth fund

Parental leave

Employee resource groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Git team. You will guide senior and staff engineers on upstream Git work, scalability, and related infrastructure, balancing open-source development with GitLab product priorities.

The role emphasizes building a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and clear accountability, while mentoring engineers and driving long-horizon projects in a fully distributed, remote environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• 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 upstream open source development, including community review and long feedback cycles.

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 for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity.
• Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability.

Skills

Engineering management

Hiring & performance management

Technical leadership

Remote collaboration

Upstream open source

Strong written communication

Mentoring

Tools

Git

Go

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Git team. You will guide senior and staff engineers on upstream Git work, scalability, and related infrastructure, balancing open-source development with GitLab product priorities.

The role emphasizes building a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and clear accountability, while mentoring engineers and driving long-horizon projects in a fully distributed, remote environment.