GitLab
Director of Engineering, Database Excellence
$230K–$346K
Remote, Canada +3 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United States
Canada
United States of America
About the job
Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization and sets strategy for the reliability, capacity, availability, and sustainability of its application databases across deployment models.
What you'll do
- Set database platform direction and long-range plans; own GitLab.com database capacity and availability and communicate risk to senior leaders.
- Lead and coach Engineering Managers and Staff-plus engineers, and oversee hiring, organization design, retention, and performance.
- Drive cross-functional database investments, operational improvements, budget management, incident response, and quarterly objectives.
What they ask for
- Experience leading managers of managers, including coaching newer managers.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, performance, and large production clusters.
- Experience leading backend engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure and applying site reliability engineering practices.
- Experience supporting customer-run software or addressing self-managed upgrades; experience leading globally distributed remote teams and communicating in writing in an asynchronous, handbook-first company.
Nice to have
- Experience with Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, object storage, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, or managed database services.
- Experience with FinOps, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or platform and infrastructure organizations.
Pay
$230,400 — $345,600 USD (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef
AI focus
The company expects team members to incorporate AI into daily workflows; AI-assisted engineering workflows are listed as a plus.
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