Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale: Gitaly

What you'll do

• Lead senior and staff engineers delivering long-horizon work across Gitaly performance, scalability, maintainability, and architecture.
• Balance roadmap work with product and infrastructure priorities, collaborating with partner teams and stakeholders.
• Support team growth through hiring, feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.

What they ask for

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Ability to guide specialized engineers through ambiguity, technical debate, and high-stakes tradeoffs.
• Track record delivering ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects and reasoning about maintainability, technical debt, and platform viability.
• Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or low-level infrastructure.
• Ability to engage with systems code and architecture, ideally in Go or similar performance-sensitive environments.

Tools

Gitaly, GitLab, Go

AI focus

GitLab expects all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows as a productivity multiplier; no specific AI development work is described.