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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed Systems
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Hire, manage, and enable a high-performing Data Insights Platform engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and deliver strong results.
- Partner closely with product managers, product designers, and peer engineering managers to define and deliver the roadmap for Data Insights Platform (DIP) and related Platform Insights initiatives.
- Own delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through across architecture work, platform improvements, and production readiness.
- Guide the technical design of distributed data-path components, including ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying.
- Help the team design safe and scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith.
- Drive a high bar for security, privacy, and governance in how platform data is handled.
- Improve operational maturity across the platform, including observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and clear runbooks for managed environments.
- Collaborate asynchronously across teams and functions.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
- Deep distributed systems expertise, including strong judgment on service boundaries, asynchronous pipelines, backpressure, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and operating multi-component systems in production.
- Strong technical background in backend and platform engineering, with the ability to guide architecture for high-throughput event pipelines and data systems.
- Experience with technologies and patterns relevant to this space, such as 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 still contributing technical guidance on complex architecture and delivery tradeoffs.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially when ownership is split between platform teams and feature teams consuming common infrastructure or APIs.
- Experience building or operating systems across multiple deployment models, with sound judgment about the tradeoffs between GitLab.com, Dedicated, self-managed, and cell-based environments.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
- Familiarity with search, indexing, and query-serving systems is a strong plus.
- A deep passion for reliability, customer outcomes, and engineering and operational excellence, with a proven track record of instilling these values in high-performing teams.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsbackend engineeringplatform engineeringevent streamingchange data captureOLAP data storesquery-serving layersservice-to-service APIsperformance monitoringcapacity planning
Soft Skills
team managementcross-functional collaborationcoachingwritten communicationasynchronous collaborationtechnical guidanceoperational excellencevalues alignmentjudgmentcustomer outcomes