Engineering Manager

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.