[Remote] Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. The Engineering Manager in the Data Foundations group will manage a high-performing team to enhance the core data platform, focusing on architecture and execution involving distributed data systems and analytics capabilities.ResponsibilitiesHire, manage, and enable a high-performing Data Insights Platform engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and deliver strong resultsPartner closely with product managers, product designers, and peer engineering managers to define and deliver the roadmap for Data Insights Platform (DIP) and related Platform Insights initiatives such as Siphon, Query API integrations, classic search initiatives, and self-service reporting foundationsOwn delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through across architecture work, platform improvements, and production readiness, with clear accountability for roadmap milestones and delivery outcomesGuide the technical design of distributed data-path components, including ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying, and shape architecture choices on sharding, partitioning, component-specific scaling, failure recovery, and tenant isolation across SaaS, Dedicated, self-managed, and Cells deployments, with a strong focus on reliability, throughput, operability, and maintainabilityHelp the team design safe and scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith, including gRPC/Protobuf-based query paths and clear ownership boundaries between DIP and product teams building user-facing GraphQL or REST endpointsDrive a high bar for security, privacy, and governance in how platform data is handled, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and safe handling of data with different privacy classificationsImprove operational maturity across the platform, including observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and clear runbooks for managed environments, with a focus on improving availability, throughput, latency, and time to recoveryCollaborate asynchronously across teams and functions to help GitLab land customer-facing reporting capabilities on top of a strong, scalable data foundationLead the design and evolution of the platform with a focus on modular architecture, ensuring systems are extensible and ready for AI-driven integrationsSkillsExperience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teamsDeep distributed systems expertise, including strong judgment on service boundaries, asynchronous pipelines, backpressure, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and operating multi-component systems in productionStrong technical background in backend and platform engineering, with the ability to guide architecture for high-throughput event pipelines and data systemsExperience with technologies and patterns relevant to this space, such as change data capture, event streaming or messaging systems, OLAP data stores, query-serving layers, and service-to-service APIsAbility to hire, develop, and coach team members while still contributing technical guidance on complex architecture and delivery tradeoffsStrong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially when ownership is split between platform teams and feature teams consuming common infrastructure or APIsExperience building or operating systems across multiple deployment models, with sound judgment about the tradeoffs between GitLab.com, Dedicated, self-managed, and cell-based environmentsStrong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environmentA deep passion for reliability, customer outcomes, and engineering and operational excellence, with a proven track record of instilling these values in high-performing teamsFamiliarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a strong plusBenefitsBenefits to support your health, finances, and well-beingFlexible Paid Time OffTeam Member Resource GroupsEquity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase PlanGrowth and Development FundParental LeaveCompany OverviewGitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://about.gitlab.com.