Engineering Manager, Gitaly

<div class="content-intro"><p>GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.</p> <p>The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/values/">values</a> and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p> <p>*<em>Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</em></p></div><div class="section page-centered"> <h3>An overview of this role</h3> <p>As Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms at GitLab, you’ll focus on building and supporting a high-performing team that keeps our platforms secure, reliable, and scalable. Your primary responsibility is to hire, coach, and develop team members, and to create an environment where they can do their best work while delivering strong results.</p> <p>You’ll partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders across GitLab to translate business goals and customer needs into resilient infrastructure platforms that power all our offerings, including GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed deployments. You and your globally distributed team will work in an agile and asynchronous way to evolve how GitLab operates core platform components, improve system reliability and performance, and support new product capabilities at scale.</p> <p>In this role, you’ll balance hands-on technical leadership with people management. You’ll guide architecture and design discussions, help your team navigate complex tradeoffs, and ensure we operate GitLab with a strong focus on security, performance, and availability. You’ll also be part of the <a href="https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/incident-management/#incident-manager-responsibilities">Incident Management on-call rotation</a>, collaborating with reliability engineers and development teams to meet availability goals and continually improve how we respond to and learn from incidents.</p> <h3>What you'll do</h3> <ul> <li value="1">Hire, lead, and support a high-performing Infrastructure Platforms team, creating an environment where GitLab team members can do their best work and deliver strong results.</li> <li value="2">Connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering by partnering closely with Product Managers and other Engineering Managers to define and deliver scalable infrastructure platforms.</li> <li value="3">Own agile delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, and execution of projects that improve how we operate GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed offerings.</li> <li value="4">Guide the security, reliability, performance, and scalability of core platform components, working with your team to design, review, and iterate on solutions.</li> <li value="5">Collaborate across Infrastructure Platforms, other Infrastructure groups, Support, and Customer Success to ensure our platforms meet the needs of teams that run and support GitLab.</li> <li value="6">Dive into technical discussions and reviews, helping to unblock complex issues and translating technical trade-offs into clear context for non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li value="7">Encourage continuous improvement in how we run our services, including quality, observability, incident response, and operational efficiency.</li> <li value="8">Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation, partnering with reliability and development teams to help ensur