Engineering Manager - Git & Gitaly Operations

GitLab
Bengaluru
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["People management","Operational judgment","Incident management","Root cause analysis","Cross-team collaboration"]

Lead the team responsible for GitLab’s Git infrastructure layer, including the open source Git project, Gitaly (Git storage and RPC layer), and the services that power Git at enterprise scale. Own production reliability across GitLab’s Self-Managed, Dedicated, and SaaS deployment models—driving incident management, root-cause investigations, service model design, and cloud-agnostic architecture while applying distributed systems and storage/compute strategy.

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GitLab
GitLab
2 months ago

Engineering Manager - Git & Gitaly Operations

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Job Summary

Lead the team responsible for GitLab’s Git infrastructure layer, including the open source Git project, Gitaly (Git storage and RPC layer), and the services that power Git at enterprise scale. Own production reliability across GitLab’s Self-Managed, Dedicated, and SaaS deployment models—driving incident management, root-cause investigations, service model design, and cloud-agnostic architecture while applying distributed systems and storage/compute strategy.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly, hiring and developing engineers to operate this infrastructure with operational judgment.
  • •Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across GitLab’s full deployment footprint.
  • •Drive incident management, root cause investigation, and postmortems with deep Git technical understanding.
  • •Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS, aligning common and differing elements.
  • •Maintain cloud-agnostic architecture and tooling decisions, applying distributed systems fundamentals to storage/replication and owning elastic storage/compute strategy.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveEquityLearning BudgetParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Familiarity with GitLab’s product and deployment models, and how Git and Gitaly support repository operations across self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS environments.
  • •Hands-on subject matter expertise in Git internals, including protocol, object model, and storage layer behavior under load at scale.
  • •Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, failure handling, and horizontal scalability.
  • •Experience running production infrastructure across multiple deployment models (self-managed, dedicated/single-tenant, and multi-tenant SaaS) or a clear adjacent path.
  • •People management experience, ideally leading SRE-style or platform operations teams; Gitaly/libgit2/JGit experience is advantageous.
Skills:People managementOperational judgmentIncident managementRoot cause analysisCross-team collaboration
Tech Stack:GitGitalyLibgit2JGitAutoscalingReplicationDistributed systemsStorage

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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