Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations
Leads the team responsible for the reliability, scaling, and operational strategy of Git and Gitaly across GitLab’s self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS deployments. Requires deep Git internals expertise, distributed systems knowledge, production infrastructure experience, and people management capability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly, hiring and developing engineers who can operate this infrastructure layer with strong operational judgment.
- Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across GitLab's full deployment footprint.
- Drive incident management, root cause investigation, and postmortems with the technical depth to distinguish a Git internals problem from a generic infrastructure problem.
- Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS environments.
- Maintain cloud-agnostic architecture and tooling decisions across deployment environments.
- Partner with teams responsible for each deployment model to keep operational practices coherent.
- Apply distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, and failure domains, to Gitaly's storage and replication model.
- Own elastic storage and compute strategy for Git repository data, including capacity planning, autoscaling, and consumption-based provisioning.
Requirements
- Familiarity with GitLab's product and deployment models and how Git and Gitaly support repository operations across self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS environments.
- Hands-on subject matter expertise in Git internals, including the protocol, object model, and storage layer under load and at scale.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, failure handling, and horizontal scalability.
- Experience running production infrastructure across multiple deployment models, such as self-managed, dedicated or single-tenant, and multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Experience with elastic storage and compute and consumption-based system design for variable, unpredictable loads.
- People management experience, ideally leading site reliability engineering or platform operations teams.
Nice to Haves
- Direct experience with Gitaly, libgit2, JGit, or another Git implementation's internals.
- Experience operating cloud-agnostic infrastructure across multiple hyperscalers or on-premises environments.
Benefits and Compensation
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Skills
Git, Gitaly, Git Internals, Distributed Systems, Replication, Cloud-Agnostic Infrastructure, Elastic Storage, Autoscaling, Capacity Planning, Production Operations, Incident Management, Libgit2, Jgit, SaaS
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