Engineering Manager - Gitaly & Git Infrastructure (Remote)

Gitlab; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock/P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager, Gitaly, to lead a senior/staff engineering team responsible for Gitaly, the Git data storage tier. You will guide technical direction, scalability, and reliability while mentoring engineers across time zones in a fully distributed environment.

You'll foster accountability, push for thoughtful tradeoffs, and partner with cross-functional teams to balance roadmap delivery with product priorities, ensuring maintainable, high-performance infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 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 the company.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 the company 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.

Skills

Team management

People leadership

Technical judgment

Written communication

Remote collaboration

Tools

Go

Distributed systems

Storage engines

Version control

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager, Gitaly, to lead a senior/staff engineering team responsible for Gitaly, the Git data storage tier. You will guide technical direction, scalability, and reliability while mentoring engineers across time zones in a fully distributed environment.

You'll foster accountability, push for thoughtful tradeoffs, and partner with cross-functional teams to balance roadmap delivery with product priorities, ensuring maintainable, high-performance infrastructure.