Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering – Async

GitLab

. Lead, hire, and grow a team of site reliability engineers and backend engineers, supporting career development, promotions, and onboarding .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeRemote • Poland, United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing engineering teams focused on site reliability and backend services, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence, incident management, and capacity planning. Proficient in leveraging technologies like Redis and Sidekiq to enhance job processing and caching reliability.

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Team LeadershipSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ManagementCapacity PlanningJob Processing Technologies

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Hard Skills

Job ProcessingCaching TechnologiesService-Level ObjectivesBurn-Rate AlertingCapacity PlanningRedisSidekiqWorkflow Engine MigrationZero-Downtime UpgradesOperating System Automation

Soft Skills

Career DevelopmentRemote Team ManagementOperational Work BalancingIncident Follow-UpCommunication

Tools & Technologies

GitLabAI Integration

Industry Keywords

High-Performance ServicesProduction SoftwareSaaS SystemsOn-Call RotationOperational Reviews

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Redis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, hire, and grow a team of site reliability engineers and backend engineers, supporting career development, promotions, and onboarding
Own reliability for job processing and caching platforms, including service-level objectives, error budgets, alerting, and weekly operational reviews
Manage capacity planning, support escalations, and incident follow-ups while balancing operational work with roadmap projects
Run the team's part of GitLab.com's first-tier on-call rotation, including shift coverage, onboarding, and handovers
Serve as incident commander for high-severity incidents
Drive zero-downtime Redis version upgrades and automate operating system patching and reboots
Adapt job processing to single-tenant and cell-based deployments
Own migration from queue-based job orchestration to a durable workflow engine
Own quarterly planning and the team roadmap
Clarify shared operational responsibilities with partner teams, including Git storage

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience managing an engineering team delivering high-performance services at scale, ideally site reliability engineers or infrastructure engineers running production software as a service systems
Technical depth in background job processing and caching technologies such as Redis and Sidekiq
Experience managing reliability against service-level objectives, including defining service-level indicators, setting up burn-rate alerting, and planning capacity
Experience running a 24/7 on-call rotation and coordinating high-severity incidents
Track record of balancing operational work and incident follow-ups with roadmap projects, and pushing back on scope when deadlines cannot be met
Experience leading a fully remote team across time zones in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific
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
Remote work arrangement