engineering
Posted Jun 17Engineering Manager, Data Foundations
at GitLab
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Own delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through across architecture work, platform improvements, and production readiness, with clear accountability for roadmap milestones and delivery outcomes. •
- Guide the technical design of distributed data-path components, including ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying, and shape architecture choices on sharding, partitioning, component-specific scaling, failure recovery, and tenant isolation across SaaS, Dedicated, self-managed, and Cells deployments, with a strong focus on reliability, throughput, operability, and maintainability. •
- Improve operational maturity across the platform, including observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and clear runbooks for managed environments, with a focus on improving availability, throughput, latency, and time to recovery. •
- Collaborate asynchronously across teams and functions to help GitLab land customer-facing reporting capabilities on top of a strong, scalable data foundation. •
- Lead the design and evolution of the platform with a focus on modular architecture, ensuring systems are extensible and ready for AI-driven integrations. What you’ll bring •
Requirements
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.
- The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.
- As Engineering Manager at GitLab, you’ll manage and grow a high-performing engineering team within the Data Foundations group, working on a core data platform that ingests, processes, persists, and queries data streams generated across GitLab.
- We are looking for a leader who can leverage AI to drive non-linear productivity gains across the platform, accelerating our ability to deliver value to our customers.
- You’ll help lead architecture and execution across both GitLab’s analytics platform and classic search capabilities, balancing platform depth with customer-facing impact.
- You’ll hire, coach, and develop engineers while also helping drive architecture and execution across a platform built around stateless ingesters, Siphon CDC replication, NATS/JetStream buffering, enrichment pipelines, ClickHouse-backed storage, and a Query API that interfaces with the GitLab Rails monolith.
- Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams. •
- Strong technical background in backend and platform engineering, with the ability to guide architecture for high-throughput event pipelines and data systems. •
- Experience with technologies and patterns relevant to this space, such as change data capture, event streaming or messaging systems, OLAP data stores, query-serving layers, and service-to-service APIs. •
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment. •
- Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a strong plus. •
- Data Insights Platform is one of our central initiatives, and we play a key role in advancing self-service reporting across GitLab.
- In addition to Data Insights Platform, the team’s scope will include classic search as part of the broader Data Foundations organization.This brings together foundational analytics and search capabilities that help customers generate insights from product data and find relevant information across GitLab.
- We partner closely with product teams to turn DIP’s real-time insights, Postgres-to-ClickHouse replication, event routing, and downstream exports into dashboards, agent experiences, and customer-facing reporting.
- Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .
Benefits
- Our vision is to build a comprehensive dashboards-as-a-service framework that uses AI and relies on scalable data infrastructure.
- The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only.
- This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits.
- benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
- United States Salary Range $152,800 — $259,200 USD How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees •
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Contact
- You’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Data, and other Engineering teams to evolve a platform that lives inside the product, keeps external services to a minimum, and runs across GitLab.com, Dedicated, Self-Managed, and Cells-based deployments.
- Experience building or operating systems across multiple deployment models, with sound judgment about the tradeoffs between GitLab.com, Dedicated, self-managed, and cell-based environments. •
Additional details
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100
- trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
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- Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
- Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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- We’re looking for someone with deep distributed systems knowledge.
- You’ll need to be comfortable going well beyond people management and into the architecture of high-throughput, multi-component data systems: ingestion, buffering, enrichment, replication, storage, querying, backpressure handling, isolation, and production operations across multiple deployment models.