Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git

GitLab
Americas, Canada, United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical rigor","Accountability","Ownership","Mentoring","Written communication","Asynchronous collaboration","Technical judgment"]

Lead a deeply technical engineering team building and scaling the Git version control system. You’ll manage senior and staff engineers, set a culture of technical rigor and ownership, and drive long-horizon execution across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture. Balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, collaborate asynchronously with a fully distributed team, and partner with downstream stakeholders such as Gitaly.

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GitLab
GitLab
1 month ago

Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git

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Job Summary

Lead a deeply technical engineering team building and scaling the Git version control system. You’ll manage senior and staff engineers, set a culture of technical rigor and ownership, and drive long-horizon execution across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture. Balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, collaborate asynchronously with a fully distributed team, and partner with downstream stakeholders such as Gitaly.
Location: Americas, Canada, United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage a team of senior and staff engineers focused on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure.
  • •Build and sustain a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership.
  • •Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture.
  • •Balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, especially Scaling Git.
  • •Support engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
  • •A management philosophy centered on engineer ownership and agency, grounded in technical judgment and follow-through.
  • •Ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity and high-stakes tradeoffs, especially in upstream open source contexts with long feedback cycles.
  • •Strong written communication and comfort working in remote, asynchronous, multi-timezone environments.
  • •Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or similarly low-level infrastructure domains, ideally with C or Go.
Experience:DevSecOpsOpen sourceDistributed systemsInfrastructure
Skills:Technical rigorAccountabilityOwnershipMentoringWritten communicationAsynchronous collaborationTechnical judgment
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GitCGoVersion control systemsDistributed systemsStorage engines

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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