Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. As Engineering Manager, you'll manage and grow a high-performing engineering team within the Data Foundations group, working on a core data platform that ingests, processes, persists, and queries data streams generated across GitLab. The team works on the Data Insights Platform and classic search, with a focus on scalable data infrastructure and AI-driven productivity.

• Hire, manage, and enable a high-performing Data Insights Platform engineering team.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and peer engineering managers to define and deliver the roadmap.
• Own delivery including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through.
• Guide technical design of distributed data-path components: ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying.
• Ensure safe integrations with the GitLab monolith via gRPC/Protobuf, GraphQL, and REST.
• Drive security, privacy, and governance in data handling.
• Improve operational maturity: observability, metrics, logging, capacity planning, and runbooks.
• Collaborate asynchronously across teams.
• Lead design and evolution of the platform with modular architecture.

• Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale.
• Deep distributed systems expertise.
• Strong technical background in backend and platform engineering.
• Experience with change data capture, event streaming, OLAP data stores, query-serving layers, and service-to-service APIs.
• Ability to hire, develop, and coach team members.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with multiple deployment models (GitLab.com, Dedicated, self-managed, Cells).
• Strong written communication and async work.
• Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a plus.

Base salary range for US residents: $152,800—$259,200 USD. Not including bonuses, equity, or benefits.

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• Team Member Resource Groups

Apply via the provided link.