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Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git
Remote Architecture Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries28 accepted countries
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
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Role overview
Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git
Requirements and responsibilities
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An overview of this role
- Scaling Git
- Git-related infrastructure and foundational performance work
What you’ll do
- Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure.
- Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm.
- Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture.
- Help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
- Support your engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
- Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team.
- Partner with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity.
- Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability.
What you’ll bring
- Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- A management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership, with credibility grounded in consistency, follow-through, and technical judgment.
- Proven ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and the realities of upstream open source development, including community review and long feedback cycles.
- Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams. You’re comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings.
- A track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes, and of reasoning from fundamentals about maintainability, technical debt, and long-term platform viability.
- Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other low-level infrastructure domains, with the ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture, ideally in C, Go, or similarly performance-sensitive environments.
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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