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An overview of this role
This role is not a typical infrastructure operations
role. As Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations, you'll lead the team responsible for the infrastructure layer
underneath Git at GitLab: the open source Git project itself, Gitaly, GitLab's Git storage and remote procedure call layer, and
the services that make Git perform at enterprise scale.
Git and Gitaly are core to GitLab. If they go sideways in
production, they affect everything downstream, including continuous integration, code review, and deployments. This role starts
with genuine subject matter expertise in Git technologies and extends to reliable operation across GitLab's deployment models:
Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS.
You'll build and develop a team with deep platform expertise and strong
operational judgment. You'll partner across engineering groups to shape how Git and Gitaly operations evolve as the platform
grows.
What you’ll do
- Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly,
hiring and developing engineers who can operate this infrastructure layer with strong operational judgment.
- Own
production reliability for Git and Gitaly across GitLab's full deployment footprint.
- Drive incident management, root
cause investigation, and postmortems with the technical depth to distinguish a Git internals problem from a generic infrastructure
problem.
- Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models that work across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS, with
a clear view of which elements are common and which must differ between them.
- Maintain cloud-agnostic architecture and
tooling decisions, avoiding designs that assume a single hyperscaler's primitives.
- Partner with the teams that own each
deployment model so operational practices stay coherent rather than fragmenting into separate playbooks.
- Apply
distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, and failure domains, to Gitaly's storage and replication
model.
- Own elastic storage and compute strategy for Git repository data, including capacity planning, autoscaling, and
consumption-based provisioning for GitLab's largest self-managed and SaaS customers.
What you’ll
bring
- Familiarity with GitLab's product and deployment models, and how Git and Gitaly support repository
operations across self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS environments.
- Hands-on subject matter expertise in Git internals,
including how the protocol, object model, and storage layer behave under load and at scale, not only familiarity with Git
usage.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, replication, failure handling, and horizontal
scalability.
- Experience running production infrastructure across multiple deployment models, such as self-managed,
dedicated or single-tenant, and multi-tenant SaaS, or a credible path from adjacent experience to it.
- Experience with
elastic storage and compute, and consumption-based system design for variable, unpredictable load.
- People management
experience, ideally leading site reliability engineering-style or platform operations teams.
- Direct experience with
Gitaly, libgit2, JGit, or another Git implementation's internals is advantageous.
- Experience operating cloud-agnostic
infrastructure across multiple hyperscalers or on-premises environments is advantageous.
About the
team
The Git & Gitaly Operations team owns the Git infrastructure layer that powers GitLab and works at the
intersection of Git internals, distributed systems, storage, and production operations.
We expect the Git & Gitaly
Operations team to go deep on one of GitLab's most critical platforms. The work requires technical depth, strong operational
discipline, and the ability to solve complex reliability and scaling challenges in Git and Gitaly.
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- 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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many
successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups
are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and
allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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