- Company: GitLab
- Location: Remote (Poland, United Kingdom)
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed group of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers. In this position, you will support your team’s professional growth while balancing production reliability with key platform projects. These include zero-downtime Redis upgrades, support for various deployment models, and the transition to a durable workflow engine.
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of engineers, supporting career progression and onboarding.
- Own reliability for job processing and caching platforms, including service-level objectives and error budgets.
- Manage capacity planning, support escalations, and incident follow-ups.
- Oversee the team’s participation in GitLab.com’s first-tier on-call rotation and serve as incident commander for high-severity issues.
- Drive zero-downtime Redis version upgrades and automate operating system patching.
- Adapt job processing for single-tenant and cell-based deployments.
- Own the migration from queue-based job orchestration to a durable workflow engine.
- Manage quarterly planning and clarify shared operational responsibilities with partner teams.
Requirements
- Experience managing an engineering team delivering high-performance services at scale.
- Technical depth in background job processing and caching technologies such as Redis and Sidekiq.
- Experience managing reliability against service-level objectives, including burn-rate alerting and capacity planning.
- Experience running a 24/7 on-call rotation and coordinating high-severity incidents.
- A track record of balancing operational work with roadmap projects and managing scope effectively.
- Experience leading a fully remote team across multiple time zones.
Pay and benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- Team Member Resource Groups
How to apply
Apply directly on GitLab’s own careers website. Omadaily never charges job seekers.
