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Engineering Manager, Geo for Self-Managed Customers
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Eligible countries59 accepted countries
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
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Role overview
Engineering Manager, Geo for Self-Managed Customers
Requirements and responsibilities
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Details
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
- Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-nines (99.99%) SLOs and know what it takes to keep them there
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with real lessons learned from both wins and missteps
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated TPM
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively
- Lead the roadmap and execution for the Geo product serving Self-Managed customers, setting clear direction in close partnership with the team’s Product Manager.
- Hire and develop a high-performing engineering team where members can thrive and deliver with quality and speed; the team is India-anchored, with EMEA backend/fullstack hiring to improve timezone overlap.
- Own the reliability, correctness, and performance of Geo replication as the core layer underpinning disaster recovery for Self-Managed deployments.
- Deliver bug fixes, API extensions, and new capabilities to the shared Geo codebase, maintaining relationships with the Geo SMEs embedded in the Dedicated Migrations and Resilience teams so day-to-day commits resolve quickly.
- Build and maintain runbooks, guardrails, and reviews so the team operates with rigor; ensure high-quality, timely responses to Geo-related escalations from Support and internal partners.
- Define, track, and report on delivery and operational metrics, using them to drive continuous improvement.
- Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure availability goals for Geo are met, working with reliability engineers and development team members.
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- 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
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