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AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. This is a senior engineering-management role for GitLab's Async platform, leading distributed Site Reliability and Backend Engineers responsible for job processing, Redis, caching, and production reliability. The manager owns SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, escalation handling, incident follow-ups, and a first-tier 24/7 on-call rotation. Key technical initiatives include zero-downtime Redis upgrades, cell-based and single-tenant deployment support, and migration from queue-based orchestration to a durable workflow engine. The role also requires people leadership, roadmap ownership, quarterly planning, and effective coordination across a globally distributed remote organization. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThe position combines senior people management with accountability for business-critical, always-on infrastructure and high-severity incident response. It requires deep operational judgment across Redis, Sidekiq, SLOs, capacity, and complex platform migrations while balancing reliability work against strategic delivery. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$165,000US market range (per year)$140k–$200k0$220.00k 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 estimates for a senior Engineering Manager overseeing SRE and backend platform teams; yearly cadence is inferred from the full-time senior professional role. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Engineering Management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Engineering%20Management.md)[Site Reliability Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Site%20Reliability%20Engineering.md)[Backend Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Backend%20Engineering.md)[Redis](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Redis.md)[Sidekiq](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Sidekiq.md)[Service Level Objectives](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Service%20Level%20Objectives.md)[Error Budgets](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Error%20Budgets.md)[Incident Management](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Incident%20Management.md)[On-Call Operations](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=On-Call%20Operations.md)[Capacity Planning](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Capacity%20Planning.md)[Platform Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Platform%20Engineering.md)[Workflow Orchestration](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Workflow%20Orchestration.md)[Distributed Systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Systems.md)[Technical Roadmapping](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Technical%20Roadmapping.md)[Remote Team Leadership](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Remote%20Team%20Leadership.md) Sample interview questionsHow would you balance urgent reliability work with a strategic migration from queue-based orchestration to a durable workflow engine?I would establish measurable reliability and migration outcomes, reserve explicit capacity for operational work, and prioritize migration use cases by risk reduction and customer impact. I would review error budgets and incident trends regularly, use them to adjust roadmap commitments, and communicate scope changes early to stakeholders. Describe how you would manage SLOs for a background-job processing platform. I would define user-impacting SLIs such as job-start latency, completion latency, queue delay, failure rate, and platform availability. I would set SLO targets with product and infrastructure partners, implement burn-rate alerts, and use error-budget consumption to guide reliability investment and release decisions. What is your approach to leading a 24/7 on-call rotation across multiple time zones? I would create clear ownership, documented escalation paths, consistent handover practices, and equitable shift distribution. I would measure paging quality, response and recovery trends, and recurring incident causes, then invest in automation and root-cause remediation to reduce unnecessary operational burden. How would you plan and execute a zero-downtime Redis upgrade? I would begin with dependency mapping, compatibility validation, rollback planning, and production-like testing. The rollout would use phased deployment, replication and failover validation, close monitoring of latency and error signals, and predefined stop criteria, followed by a retrospective to capture improvements. How do you support career growth for SREs and backend engineers while maintaining delivery accountability? I set clear role expectations, regularly discuss growth goals, provide actionable feedback, and create opportunities for engineers to lead technical initiatives and incident improvements. I also calibrate workload and recognition so operational excellence, mentoring, and strategic project delivery are all visible in performance discussions. 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 Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async, you’ll lead a distributed group of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers. You’ll support their development and balance production reliability with platform projects, including zero-downtime Redis upgrades, support for single-tenant and cell-based deployments, and the move from queue-based job orchestration to a durable workflow engine. ### What you’ll do * Lead, hire, and grow a team of site reliability engineers and backend engineers, supporting career development, promotions, and onboarding. * Own reliability for the job processing and caching platforms, including service-level objectives, error budgets, alerting, and weekly operational reviews. * Manage capacity planning, support escalations, and incident follow-ups, balancing operational work with roadmap projects and rescoping work when deadlines can’t be met. * Run the team’s part of GitLab.com’s first-tier on-call rotation, including shift coverage, onboarding, and handovers, and serve as incident commander for high-severity incidents. * Drive zero-downtime Redis version upgrades and automate operating system patching and reboots. * Adapt job processing to run in single-tenant and cell-based deployments. * Own the migration from queue-based job orchestration to a durable workflow engine, defining the first use cases, a measurable migration path, and the roadmap. * Own quarterly planning and the team roadmap, and clarify shared operational responsibilities with partner teams, including Git storage. ### What you’ll bring * Experience managing an engineering team delivering high-performance services at scale, ideally site reliability engineers or infrastructure engineers running production software as a service systems. * Technical depth in background job processing and caching technologies such as Redis and Sidekiq, sufficient to guide decisions about upgrades, capacity, and failure modes. * Experience managing reliability against service-level objectives, including defining service-level indicators, setting up burn-rate alerting, and planning capacity. * Experience running a 24/7 on-call rotation and coordinating high-severity incidents. * A track record of balancing operational work and incident follow-ups with roadmap projects, and pushing back on scope when deadlines can’t be met. * Experience leading a fully remote team across time zones in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. ### About the team The Async team runs GitLab.com’s background processing layer, from the Sidekiq infrastructure to the shared code that enqueues jobs. Product teams build the jobs; we keep the platform that runs them fast and reliable. Our Redis clusters support caching, sessions, rate limiting, queues, and shared state. We also support data durability through backup and restore verification, object storage, and operational support for Git repository storage. That work includes restore drills, capacity rebalancing, and provisioning. 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