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Director of Engineering, Analytics Platform & Products
GitLabDirector of Engineering overseeing analytics strategy, architecture, and execution at GitLab. Leading teams to build next-gen analytics products while collaborating with key stakeholders.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesDistributed Systems
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the Analytics engineering organization with accountability for strategy, architecture, execution, and team health, with success measured through roadmap delivery, service reliability, and organizational effectiveness.
- Guide Engineering Managers and partner with Principal Engineers to set technical direction and support key architectural decisions.
- Define the roadmap for analytics capabilities across instrumentation, data foundations, and customer-facing data products, with success measured through adoption, usage, and customer value.
- Oversee the design and operation of end-to-end data pipelines, including instrumentation, ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and product integration, with accountability for data quality, freshness, latency, and reliability.
- Drive platform and architecture decisions that support GitLab's SaaS, self-managed, and regulated or isolated deployment environments.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, Infrastructure, Data, and AI leaders to align roadmap, architecture, and execution.
- Build a high-performing engineering organization with clear ownership, strong operational discipline, and a consistent technical standard that improves delivery predictability, operational health, and technical quality.
- Champion asynchronous ways of working and AI-assisted development workflows that increase engineering focus, throughput, and delivery quality.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a Director-level or comparable engineering leadership role.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform engineering.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end data pipelines, analytics platforms, and the technical tradeoffs involved in building them.
- Ability to engage deeply in architecture, system design, and technical discussions with senior and principal engineers.
- Experience delivering platforms across SaaS, self-managed, and regulated or isolated environments.
- Commitment to engineering practices such as test-driven development, continuous delivery, and modular architecture.
- Strong cross-functional communication and leadership skills in a distributed, remote-first environment.
- Interest in transferable experience from adjacent areas such as product analytics, instrumentation, observability, or privacy-conscious analytics systems.
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
analytics engineeringdata pipelinesdistributed systemsplatform engineeringtest-driven developmentcontinuous deliverymodular architecturedata qualitydata transformationdata ingestion
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional communicationteam healthoperational disciplinetechnical discussionsstrategic directioncollaborationengineering focusdelivery qualityorganizational effectiveness