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Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async
Engineering managerRemote — Poland, United Kingdom
Published on 2026-10-28
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About this role
Lead a distributed team responsible for the reliability and evolution of GitLab.com's background job processing and caching platforms. Balance production operations with roadmap work, including Redis upgrades, cell-based deployments, and migration to a durable workflow engine.
About the company
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.
The team
Async team, responsible for GitLab.com's Sidekiq infrastructure, job-enqueueing code, Redis clusters, and related durability and storage operations.
Stack
RedisSidekiq
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, and develop site reliability and backend engineers.
- Own platform reliability, SLOs, error budgets, alerting, capacity planning, and operational reviews.
- Coordinate on-call coverage, escalations, and high-severity incident response.
- Drive zero-downtime Redis upgrades and automate operating system patching and reboots.
- Adapt job processing for single-tenant and cell-based deployments.
- Lead migration from queue-based orchestration to a durable workflow engine.
- Own quarterly planning and the team roadmap, coordinating operational responsibilities with partner teams.
What we're looking for
- Experience managing engineering teams delivering high-performance services at scale, preferably SRE or infrastructure teams.
- Technical depth in background job processing and caching technologies such as Redis and Sidekiq.
- Experience managing reliability through SLOs, SLIs, burn-rate alerting, and capacity planning.
- Experience running 24/7 on-call rotations and coordinating major incidents.
- Ability to balance operational work with roadmap delivery and adjust scope when needed.
- Experience leading fully remote teams across multiple time zones.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
- Team member resource groups