# Engineering Manager

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

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## Description

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Production Engineering - Observability team.

The Engineering Manager will lead a globally distributed team responsible for building and operating metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms used by GitLab engineers to understand GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a distributed engineering team working asynchronously.

- Set priorities with Site Reliability Engineering, Product Engineering, and GitLab Dedicated teams.

- Own the reliability, scalability, and cost of the team's metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms.

- Reduce noisy or missing alerts and telemetry gaps.

- Guide technical decisions about time-series storage, high-cardinality metrics, log pipelines, and distributed tracing.

- Participate in incident response and help keep the team's on-call work sustainable.

Requirements:

- Experience leading an observability, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team operating at scale.

- Technical knowledge of metrics systems such as Prometheus and long-term storage, logging platforms, and alerting design.

- Experience using SLOs, error budgets, and capacity forecasts.

- Experience operating a large software-as-a-service platform and investigating production issues.

- Experience participating in and improving production on-call rotations.

- The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineering partners and other stakeholders.

- Experience using AI tools or agents in engineering or management work.

GitLab supports its employees with various benefits, including flexible paid time off, equity compensation, and a growth and development fund.

## Skills

### Required
- Prometheus
- long-term storage
- logging platforms
- alerting design
- SLOs
- error budgets
- capacity forecasts
- site reliability engineering
- observability
- platform engineering

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- agents in engineering
- management work

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