# Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,800-$259,200 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Engineering Manager at GitLab, you’ll manage and grow a high-performing engineering team within the Data Foundations group, working on a core data platform that ingests, processes, persists, and queries data streams generated across GitLab.

Responsibilities:

- Hire, 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 results.

- Partner 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.

- Own delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through across architecture work, platform improvements, and production readiness.

- Guide the technical design of distributed data-path components, including ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying.

- Help the team design safe and scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith.

- Drive a high bar for security, privacy, and governance in how platform data is handled.

- Improve operational maturity across the platform, including observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and clear runbooks for managed environments.

- Collaborate asynchronously across teams and functions to help GitLab land customer-facing reporting capabilities on top of a strong, scalable data foundation.

- Lead the design and evolution of the platform with a focus on modular architecture.

Requirements:

- Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale.

- Deep distributed systems expertise.

- Strong technical background in backend and platform engineering.

- Experience with technologies and patterns relevant to this space.

- Ability to hire, develop, and coach team members.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Experience building or operating systems across multiple deployment models.

- Strong written communication skills.

- Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a strong plus.

Benefits:

- Benefits to support your 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

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- backend engineering
- platform engineering
- data systems
- security
- privacy
- governance

### Nice to have
- search
- indexing
- query-serving systems

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