Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Health and well‑being supports

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations to lead the team responsible for the Git infrastructure layer underlying the company's core products. The role emphasizes deep Git/Gitaly expertise and high operational judgment across Self‑Managed, Dedicated, and SaaS deployments.

You will champion reliability, design scalable storage and compute strategies, and partner with cross‑functional teams to evolve Git and Gitaly operations as the platform grows.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Git internals, protocol, object model and storage under load and at scale.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, replication, failure handling, and scalability.
• Experience running production infrastructure across multiple deployment models (Self‑Managed, Dedicated, SaaS).
• Leadership of site reliability engineering or platform operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team with deep Git/Gitaly platform expertise and strong operational judgment.
• Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across all deployment footprints.
• Drive incident management, RCAs, and post-mortems with deep Git knowledge.
• Design and operate Git/Gitaly service models for Self‑Managed, Dedicated, and SaaS deployments.

Skills

Git internals knowledge

Distributed systems fundamentals

People management

Production operations

Cloud/hyperscaler experience

Tools

Gitaly

libgit2

JGit

Job description

An overview of this role

This role is not a typical infrastructure operations role. As Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations, you'll lead the team responsible for the infrastructure layer underneath Git at the company: the open source Git project itself, Gitaly, the company's Git storage and remote procedure call layer, and the services that make Git perform at enterprise scale.

Git and Gitaly are core to the company. If they go sideways in production, they affect everything downstream, including continuous integration, code review, and deployments. This role starts with genuine subject matter expertise in Git technologies and extends to reliable operation across the company's deployment models: Self‑Managed, the company Dedicated, and SaaS.

You'll build and develop a team with deep platform expertise and strong operational judgment. You'll partner across engineering groups to shape how Git and Gitaly operations evolve as the platform grows.

What you’ll do

• Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly, hiring and developing engineers who can operate this infrastructure layer with strong operational judgment.
• Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across the company's full deployment footprint.
• Drive incident management, root‑cause investigation, and post‑mortems with the technical depth to distinguish a Git internals problem from a generic infrastructure problem.
• Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models that work across Self‑Managed, the company Dedicated, and SaaS, with a clear view of which elements are common and which must differ between them.
• Maintain cloud‑agnostic architecture and tooling decisions, avoiding designs that assume a single hyperscaler's primitives.
• Partner with the teams that own each deployment model so operational practices stay coherent rather than fragmenting into separate playbooks.
• Apply distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, and failure domains, to Gitaly's storage and replication model.
• Own elastic storage and compute strategy for Git repository data, including capacity planning, autoscaling, and consumption‑based provisioning for the company's largest self‑managed and SaaS customers.

What you’ll bring

• Familiarity with the company's product and deployment models, and how Git and Gitaly support repository operations across self‑managed, dedicated, and SaaS environments.
• Hands‑on subject matter expertise in Git internals, including how the protocol, object model, and storage layer behave under load and at scale, not only familiarity with Git usage.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, failure handling, and horizontal scalability.
• Experience running production infrastructure across multiple deployment models, such as self‑managed, dedicated or single‑tenant, and multi‑tenant SaaS, or a credible path from adjacent experience to it.
• Experience with elastic storage and compute, and consumption‑based system design for variable, unpredictable load.
• People management experience, ideally leading site reliability engineering‑style or platform operations teams.
• Direct experience with Gitaly, libgit2, JGit, or another Git implementation's internals is advantageous.
• Experience operating cloud‑agnostic infrastructure across multiple hyperscalers or on‑premises environments is advantageous.

About the team

The Git & Gitaly Operations team owns the Git infrastructure layer that powers the company and works at the intersection of Git internals, distributed systems, storage, and production operations.

We expect the Git & Gitaly Operations team to go deep on one of the company's most critical platforms. The work requires technical depth, strong operational discipline, and the ability to solve complex reliability and scaling challenges in Git and Gitaly.

Benefits

• 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

the company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. the company’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color,