Requirements

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Management philosophy focused on building engineer agency and ownership, grounded in consistency, follow-through, and technical judgment.
• Proven ability to guide specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and operating critical services.
• Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills with distributed, multi-timezone teams.
• Track record of delivering on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes and managing maintainability and technical debt.
• Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or low-level infrastructure, with ability to engage with systems code and architecture, ideally in Go or similar environments.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on Gitaly and related infrastructure.
• Build a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership within the team.
• Drive execution on complex, long-term work involving performance, scalability, maintainability, and core architecture.
• Balance roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
• Support engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
• Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team.
• Partner with teams and stakeholders who rely on Gitaly expertise for performance, features, and roadmap clarity.
• Represent the team in cross-functional and stakeholder conversations regarding Gitaly direction, performance, and scalability.

Perks and benefits

• Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental Leave.