Job Title: Engineering Manager
Employer: GitLab
Job Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: Not Available
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Description

• Lead a team of senior and staff engineers responsible for Gitaly and related infrastructure at GitLab.

• Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, ownership and continuous improvement.

• Oversee long-term engineering projects focused on performance, scalability, maintainability and core Gitaly architecture.

• Balance engineering roadmaps with GitLab’s product development and infrastructure priorities.

• Support engineers through mentoring, feedback, career planning and professional development opportunities.

• Promote effective written communication and asynchronous collaboration across a globally distributed team.

• Collaborate with Git and other stakeholder teams on performance improvements, feature design and roadmap planning.

• Represent the team in cross-functional discussions about Gitaly’s technical direction and scalability.

• Guide the development and maintenance of Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage layer, including tooling and new data formats.

Responsibilities

• Manage, recruit and develop a team of senior and staff engineers.

• Establish clear performance expectations and encourage accountability and independent decision-making.

• Provide regular feedback, coaching and career development support.

• Lead complex technical initiatives involving distributed systems, storage infrastructure and performance optimisation.

• Make informed architectural decisions that balance immediate delivery with long-term maintainability.

• Manage technical debt and improve platform reliability, scalability and sustainability.

• Coordinate engineering priorities with product, infrastructure and other technical teams.

• Facilitate technical discussions, resolve disagreements and guide decisions involving complex trade-offs.

• Encourage documentation, written communication and effective collaboration across multiple time zones.

• Support operational excellence and ensure the team delivers measurable engineering outcomes.

• Integrate AI tools into daily engineering and management workflows to improve productivity.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineering teams, including direct reports, recruitment, performance management and career development.

• A management philosophy that promotes engineer autonomy, ownership and accountability.

• Ability to guide highly specialised engineers through ambiguity, complex technical decisions and operational challenges.

• Excellent written communication and asynchronous collaboration skills.

• Experience leading complex, long-term technical projects and delivering results under pressure.

• Strong understanding of maintainability, technical debt and long-term platform viability.

• Hands-on experience with version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines or low-level infrastructure.

• Ability to engage confidently with systems-level code and software architecture.

• Experience with Go or similar performance-sensitive programming environments is advantageous.

• Willingness and ability to incorporate AI tools into everyday workflows.

• Strong technical leadership, strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting employee health, financial security and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Team Member Resource Groups that promote inclusion and community.

• Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

• Growth and Development Fund to support learning and professional advancement.

• Parental leave benefits.

• Remote working arrangements, offering flexibility to work from different locations.

• Opportunities to lead technically challenging projects and develop engineering leadership expertise within a globally distributed organisation.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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