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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability and ownership, and guiding complex technical projects in performance and scalability. Proficient in written communication and remote collaboration across distributed teams while engaging with systems code and architecture.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Team ManagementTechnical LeadershipPerformance OptimizationVersion Control SystemsAsynchronous Communication
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Hard Skills
Gitaly ArchitectureDistributed SystemsStorage EnginesGo ProgrammingTechnical Debt ManagementPerformance ScalabilityAI IntegrationService OperationsRoadmap DeliveryTooling Development
Soft Skills
MentoringFeedback DeliveryCollaborationAccountabilityCommunication
Industry Keywords
Engineering ManagementTechnical TradeoffsCross-Functional CollaborationRemote Team ManagementLong-Horizon Projects
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed SystemsGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on Gitaly and related infrastructure
- Build a culture of technical rigor, accountability, and ownership
- Drive complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Gitaly architecture
- Balance roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities
- Support engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities
- Foster written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team
- Partner with Git and other stakeholder teams on performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity
- Represent the team in cross-functional discussions about Gitaly direction, performance, and scalability
- Guide development, maintenance, tooling, scalability improvements, and new data formats for Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development
- Management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership
- Ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and service operations
- Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams
- Track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes
- Ability to reason from fundamentals about maintainability, technical debt, and long-term platform viability
- Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other low-level infrastructure domains
- Ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture, ideally in Go or similarly performance-sensitive environments
- Expected 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