Engineering Manager, Geo for Self-Managed Customers
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About the Role
We are looking for a Technical Engineering Manager to lead the Geo for Self-Managed Customers team. This team owns the Geo product end-to-end, providing tenant-to-tenant replication essential for disaster recovery strategies. You will guide the team in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ensuring reliability, correctness, and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the roadmap and execution for the Geo product, in close partnership with the Product Manager.
- Hire and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering an environment where members can thrive.
- Own the reliability, correctness, and performance of Geo replication, the core layer for disaster recovery.
- Deliver bug fixes, API extensions, and new capabilities to the Geo codebase.
- Build and maintain runbooks, guardrails, and reviews for rigorous team operations.
- Ensure high-quality, timely responses to Geo-related escalations.
- Define, track, and report on delivery and operational metrics to drive continuous improvement.
- Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to ensure availability goals are met.
What You'll Bring
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to guide technical strategy.
- Experience driving operational excellence and managing services with high SLOs (e.g., 99.99%).
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with lessons learned.
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures.
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion independently.
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively.
How GitLab Supports Employees
- Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible Paid Time Off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental Leave.
Country Hiring Guidelines
GitLab hires globally, with all roles being remote. Specific location-based eligibility requirements may apply. The Talent Acquisition team can provide details.
Diversity & Inclusion
GitLab welcomes interest from candidates with varying levels of experience and encourages applications even if not every qualification is met. They are committed to diversity and inclusion, and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. GitLab is an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, prohibiting discrimination and harassment based on various protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodation is available for individuals with disabilities during the recruiting process.
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Is this position remote?
The Engineering Manager, Geo for Self-Managed Customers role is a remote opportunity. The location specified is UK.
What is the salary?
The salary is not explicitly stated, but is competitive and based on experience.
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