Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git

ABOUT THE ROLE As an Engineering Manager at GitLab, you will guide a deeply technical team focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on the Git version control system. The team's work spans upstream development of Git, support for teams across GitLab, new tooling, scalability improvements, new data formats, and ongoing maintenance of the Git codebase. WHAT YOU'LL DO In this role, you will manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure. You will build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm. Your responsibilities will include: - Driving execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture - Helping the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities - Supporting your engineers' growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities - Fostering strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team - Partnering with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity - Representing the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 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 upstream open source development, including community review and long feedback cycles - Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams - 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 C, Go, or similarly performance-sensitive environments WHY REMOTE As a fully distributed team, we value strong written communication and asynchronous collaboration skills. You will be comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings. BENEFITS GitLab offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth and development in a dynamic and innovative environment.