Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale: Gitaly

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

the company is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. the company enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust the company to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. the company is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role

As an Engineering Manager, Gitaly at the company, you'll guide a deeply technical team focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on Gitaly, the company's Git data storage tier. The team's work spans development of Gitaly, support for teams across the company, new tooling, scalability improvements, new data formats, and ongoing maintenance of the Gitaly codebase.

This role is a good fit for you if you can guide senior and staff engineers through complex, long-horizon technical work while building a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership. You'll help the team balance roadmap delivery with the company product and infrastructure priorities, especially as much of the team's work is centered on scaling Git storage and adjacent foundational work. Clear written communication and thoughtful technical judgment are central to how this team succeeds.

Project areas include:

• Scaling Git storage

• Gitaly-related infrastructure and foundational performance work

What you’ll do

• 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.

What you’ll bring

• 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.

About the team

On the Gitaly team, we build, maintain, and provide expertise on Gitaly, the company's Git data storage tier. Our core work includes development of Gitaly, supporting teams across the company, and ensuring the long-term viability of the project. We are a deeply technical team that balances long-running technical work with practical delivery. Strong collaboration with partner teams is central to how we succeed.

How the company Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and Development Fund

• Parental Leave

Country Hiring Guidelines:

the company hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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