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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading database platform strategy and engineering teams, with a strong focus on PostgreSQL management, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Proven ability to drive technical decisions through data analysis and collaborate across divisions to align database investments with product outcomes.
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PostgreSQL ManagementDatabase Platform StrategySite Reliability EngineeringLeadership of Engineering ManagersData-Driven Decision Making
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Hard Skills
Capacity PlanningPerformance OptimizationIncident ManagementAutomationService Level Objectives
Soft Skills
Clear Written CommunicationCoaching and MentoringCross-Division Collaboration
Tools & Technologies
Google Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraformRedisClickHouseOpenSearchManaged Database Services
Industry Keywords
Database ExcellenceSelf-Managed SoftwareInfrastructure TradeoffsGlobal Team LeadershipAI-Assisted Engineering Workflows
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesChefCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPostgresRedisTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform in line with company strategy
- Own database capacity and availability outcomes for GitLab.com, and communicate database risk to senior leadership
- Lead and coach three Engineering Managers and develop Staff-plus engineers into leaders
- Drive cross-division technical decisions using data, partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps
- Partner with Product to prioritize database platform investments and make infrastructure tradeoffs in the context of product outcomes
- Own the hiring plan, organization design, retention, and performance management for teams across regions
- Set quarterly objectives and key results and engineering key performance indicators for the stage, and manage the database infrastructure budget with FinOps
- Serve as an escalation point for database incidents, standardize effective processes, and keep the handbook current
- Lead the Database Excellence stage supporting GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated
- Guide long-range platform decisions and contribute to GitLab’s company-wide datastore strategy, including Cells partitioning
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience leading managers of managers, including coaching newer managers
- Experience working hands-on with PostgreSQL at scale, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, performance, and large production clusters
- Experience using data to make strategic technical decisions and connect database platform investments and tradeoffs with product outcomes
- Experience supporting software that customers run themselves, or working through the self-managed upgrade challenge
- Experience leading backend engineering teams that own production infrastructure, applying site reliability engineering practices including service level objectives, on-call operations, incident management, cost management, and automation
- Experience communicating clearly in writing in an asynchronous, handbook-first company
- Experience leading globally distributed remote teams
- Experience with Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, object storage, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, managed database services, FinOps, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or platform and infrastructure organizations is a plus
- Ability to incorporate AI into daily workflows
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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