Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure at Gitlab. Location Information: United States. GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 1,000 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one . vision. : everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.. We . value. results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our . primer. to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.. Avoid the . confidence gap. ; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. Our hiring process is described in more detail in our . hiring handbook. .. Work remotely from anywhere in the world. Curious to see what that looks like? Check out our . remote manifesto. .. Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems that support GitLab's cell-based architecture.. Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure, spanning architecture, delivery, and production operations.. Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams to make unit economics part of the system design.. Own the reliability model for cell infrastructure, including on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem follow-through.. Partner with adjacent teams such as Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD to support their scaling and deployment needs.. Define and evolve architectural decisions for cross-cloud routing, data residency, and infrastructure portability.. Develop platform capabilities and developer tooling that let teams deploy on top of cell infrastructure without needing to understand its internal complexity.. Represent the team in cross-functional planning with senior engineering stakeholders on GitLab's broader cells and multi-cloud strategy.. Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production using cell-based architecture.. Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including experience with on-call, incident management, and site reliability engineering practices.. Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as consistency models, partitioning and sharding, failure modes, and multi-region or multi-cloud tradeoffs.. Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment, with scope aligned to either a single team or a broader multi-team organization.. Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and, at the senior manager level, engineering managers.. Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools that other engineering teams use to build and deploy software.. Comfort working in ambiguity and helping define direction in an early-stage build rather than stepping into a maintenance-focused role.. Clear cross-functional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with VP-level and CTO-level stakeholders.. Competitive salary. Remote work
Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure at Gitlab