Engineering Manager Data Foundations
You will manage, hire, coach, and develop engineers working on GitLab’s Data Foundations platform. You will own planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through while guiding the architecture of high-throughput distributed data systems. You will partner with product, design, infrastructure, data, and engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics, reporting, and search capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Hire, manage, and enable a high-performing Data Insights Platform engineering team
- Define and deliver the roadmap for Data Insights Platform, Siphon, Query API integrations, classic search, and self-service reporting
- Own planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through for the team
- Guide technical design for ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying components
- Design scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith using gRPC and Protobuf query paths
- Drive security, privacy, and governance for platform data
- Improve observability, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and operational runbooks
- Collaborate asynchronously to deliver customer-facing reporting capabilities
- Lead the evolution of modular platform architecture for AI-driven integrations
Requirements
- Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale
- Expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous pipelines, backpressure, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and production operations
- Technical background in backend and platform engineering
- Experience with change data capture, event streaming or messaging systems, OLAP data stores, query-serving layers, and service-to-service APIs
- Ability to hire, develop, and coach team members while providing technical guidance
- Cross-functional collaboration across platform and feature teams
- Experience operating systems across multiple deployment models
- Written communication skills for an all-remote, asynchronous environment
- Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity compensation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Parental leave