About the company
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform in line with company strategy
- Own database capacity and availability outcomes for GitLab.com, and communicate database risk to senior leadership
- Lead and coach three Engineering Managers and develop Staff-plus engineers into leaders
- Drive cross-division technical decisions using data, partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps
- Partner with Product to prioritize database platform investments and make infrastructure tradeoffs
- Own the hiring plan, organization design, retention, and performance management for teams across regions
- Set quarterly objectives and key results and engineering key performance indicators for the stage, and manage the database infrastructure budget with FinOps
- Serve as an escalation point for database incidents, standardize effective processes, and keep the handbook current
Requirements
- Experience leading managers of managers, including coaching newer managers
- Experience working hands-on with PostgreSQL at scale, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, performance, and large production clusters
- Experience using data to make strategic technical decisions and connect database platform investments and tradeoffs with product outcomes
- Experience supporting software that customers run themselves, or working through the self-managed upgrade challenge
- Experience leading backend engineering teams that own production infrastructure, applying site reliability engineering practices including service level objectives, on-call operations, incident management, cost management, and automation
- Experience communicating clearly in writing in an asynchronous, handbook-first company
- Experience leading globally distributed remote teams
- Experience with Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, object storage, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, managed database services, FinOps, AI-assisted engineering workflows, or platform and infrastructure organizations is a plus
Conditions
- Remote role in Canada or United States
- Base salary range for US residents only; grade level and salary ranges determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location
- Base salary range does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits