[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![GitLab logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/12/WRILS-201207055737-109952.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md)[GitLab](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md) # Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale: Gitaly Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/gitlab.md)ShareRemote from[UK](https://jobicy.com/job-region/uk.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished23 Oct 2026Apply before22 Nov 2026Listing views37Application actions0Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Gitaly team, which owns GitLab’s Git data-storage tier and related infrastructure. The manager will guide senior and staff engineers delivering long-horizon work in scalability, performance, maintainability, and core architecture. The role combines people leadership—including hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development—with technical leadership in distributed systems and storage-oriented infrastructure. Success depends on sound technical judgment, strong asynchronous written communication, and effective collaboration across a distributed organization. A hands-on background with version-control systems, systems code, Go, or similarly performance-sensitive environments is strongly preferred. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior technical leadership role responsible for a business-critical storage platform and a team of experienced engineers. It requires navigating ambiguous, high-stakes architectural trade-offs while maintaining delivery momentum and developing people. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$210,000US market range (per year)$175k–$260k0$286k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No employer salary was disclosed. The annual USD figures are AI-estimated market compensation for a senior engineering manager leading distributed-systems and storage infrastructure; they are not an employer-provided pay range. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would use operational and product metrics to assess urgency, reserve capacity for foundational work, and communicate decisions and consequences clearly to stakeholders. Describe how you lead senior and staff engineers through an ambiguous architectural decision. I establish the problem statement, constraints, decision owner, and expected timeline, then encourage written proposals that present alternatives, risks, and measurable success criteria. I facilitate rigorous debate while ensuring the team reaches a documented decision and follows through with validation after implementation. What signals would you monitor to understand whether a Git storage platform is scaling effectively? I would track latency and throughput by operation type, error rates, queue depth, storage growth, resource saturation, replication health, and tenant-level performance variance. I would pair these technical signals with capacity forecasts and customer-impact indicators to prioritize investments before reliability degrades. How do you develop engineers while maintaining accountability for delivery? I set clear outcomes and ownership boundaries, provide frequent actionable feedback, and create stretch opportunities that align with each engineer’s development goals. Regular one-on-ones, calibrated performance expectations, and retrospective learning help maintain both growth and delivery accountability. How would you make cross-functional alignment effective in a remote, asynchronous organization? I would default to concise written context, decision records, milestones, and status updates that stakeholders can review across time zones. Meetings would be reserved for unresolved issues, with outcomes documented afterward so ownership, rationale, and next steps remain visible. Opportunity details ## About this role. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. [Co-create the future with us](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI) as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. ### An overview of this role As an Engineering Manager, Gitaly at GitLab, you’ll guide a deeply technical team focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier. The team’s work spans development of Gitaly, support for teams across GitLab, new tooling, scalability improvements, new data formats, and ongoing maintenance of the Gitaly codebase. This role is a good fit for you if you can guide senior and staff engineers through complex, long-horizon technical work while building a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership. You’ll help the team balance roadmap delivery with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, especially as much of the team’s work is centered on scaling Git storage and adjacent foundational work. Clear written communication and thoughtful technical judgment are central to how this team succeeds. Project areas include: * Scaling Git storage * Gitaly-related infrastructure and foundational performance work ### What you’ll do * Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on Gitaly and Gitaly-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 Gitaly architecture. * Guide the team in balancing roadmap delivery 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 teams like Git and other stakeholders who rely on Gitaly expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity. * Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Gitaly 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 operating a service that is critical to GitLab. * 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 Go or similarly performance-sensitive environments. ### About the team On the Gitaly team, we build, maintain, and provide expertise on Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier. Our core work includes development of Gitaly, supporting teams across GitLab, and ensuring the long-term viability of the project. We are a deeply technical team that balances long-running technical work with practical delivery. Strong collaboration with partner teams is central to how we succeed. ### How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees * [Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/) * [Flexible Paid Time Off](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/time-off-and-absence/time-off-types/#flexible-paid-time-off-pto) * [Team Member Resource Groups](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/culture/inclusion/tmrg-tmag/) * [Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/stock-options/) * [Growth and Development Fund](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/growth-and-development/) * [Parental Leave](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave) Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. 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