Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale: Gitaly

About this role

Manage a deeply technical team responsible for Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier. Lead long-term work on Git storage scalability, performance, maintainability, and infrastructure while balancing product and platform priorities.

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

Gitaly team, responsible for GitLab’s Git data storage tier.

Stack

What you'll do

• Manage and develop senior and staff engineers, including feedback, mentoring, and career development.
• Drive complex, long-horizon work across Gitaly performance, scalability, maintainability, and architecture.
• Balance team roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
• Build a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and ownership.
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams and partner stakeholders.
• Represent Gitaly’s direction and expertise in cross-functional discussions.

What we're looking for

• Experience managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Ability to guide specialized engineers through ambiguity, technical debate, and high-stakes tradeoffs.
• Strong written communication and experience working across distributed, multi-timezone teams.
• Track record delivering ambiguous, long-term technical projects with clear outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or low-level infrastructure.
• Ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture; Go or a similar performance-sensitive environment is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
• Growth and development fund
• Parental leave
• Team member resource groups