Engineering Manager - Data Access: Durability

As an Engineering Manager Durability your primary focus lies on leading a world-class team and putting them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive and the team produces results.

You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable product. Your team of SREs and Backend Engineers will be globally distributed and you will work in an async way to safeguard and secure customer data that is stored by the GitLab application and set guidelines for accessing and processing it.

What you will do

• Lead the Durability team within the Data Access sub-department according to GitLab’s values and leadership principles

• Partner with a Product Manager and other engineering teams to ensure a scalable reliable performant and sustainable storage solution for data storage and access patterns

• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces Results for Customers

• Hire and grow an incredible team that lives our values

• Manage Agile projects

• Improve the quality security and performance of the product

• Participate in the Incident Manager on-call rotation

What you will bring

• Experience leading SaaS systems Infrastructure SRE or similar teams

• Experience leading software engineering teams

• Strong technical background in a relevant field

• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate this to understandable language relevant to an audience of varied technical abilities

• Experience hiring coaching growing and retaining Engineering talent

• Deep technical understanding of running SaaS applications and infrastructure at scale

• Experience leading a team on a large-scale consumer platform

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

About the team

The Durability team serves as architects and thought partners on data access matters also closing the loop between operational and development work. The team partners directly with Gitaly and owns the Redis and Sidekiq setup as well as object storage in operational aspects as well as developing interfaces and influencing access patterns. In addition the team is responsible for developing and maintaining GitLab’s toolchain for backups and restores.