# Engineering Manager - Database Change Management

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Engineering Manager, Database Change Management, you'll lead a remote backend engineering team in the Database Excellence stage. The team owns database health and the database upgrade experience across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments.

You will guide two missions: keeping one of the largest PostgreSQL installations in the world within its capacity limits, and delivering a multi-year replacement of GitLab's database migration system so customer upgrades become dramatically faster and safer.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead a distributed team of backend engineers working fully asynchronously across time zones.

- Hire, onboard, and develop an India-based engineering cluster.

- Balance the team's database health responsibilities with the multi-quarter migration system replacement.

- Coach engineers from intermediate through senior levels.

- Run the team async-first through written decision records and visible priorities.

- Partner with various teams, including Distribution, Quality Assurance, and infrastructure leadership.

Requirements:

- Engineering management experience leading remote, distributed teams.

- Production PostgreSQL experience, including capacity planning.

- Experience leading a long-horizon platform or infrastructure program.

- Hiring and team-building experience.

- Strong written communication skills.

- Experience coaching and developing backend engineers.

- Ability to set priorities and protect focus while maintaining production health.

GitLab supports full-time employees with benefits such as flexible paid time off, equity compensation, and a growth and development fund.

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- engineering management
- team leadership
- written communication
- coaching

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