# Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Git, C, Go, Distributed Systems, version control systems, upstream open source development, Technical Leadership, mentoring, Performance Optimization, Scalability
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Lead a team of senior and staff engineers focused on upstream Git development, scaling, performance, and foundational infrastructure at GitLab. Requires strong technical management experience, hands-on low-level systems background, and excellence in asynchronous, written collaboration across distributed teams.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure.
- Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm.
- Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture.
- Help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
- Support your engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
- Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team.
- Partner with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity.
- Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability.

## What you’ll bring

- 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. You’re comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings.
- 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.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience with upstream open source development, particularly in the Git community.
- Familiarity with Git-related infrastructure and foundational performance work.
- Background in scaling Git or similar version control systems.

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