Description
GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager, Git, to lead a 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.
As an Engineering Manager, you will guide a team of senior and staff engineers through complex, long-horizon technical work while building a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership. You will help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities.
Key responsibilities:
- 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 engineers' growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
Requirements:
- 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.
- 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.
GitLab supports full-time employees with benefits such as flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, and employee stock purchase plans.