Remote, Canada; Remote, United States•Canada•United States of America
Remote
Director
Full Time
💰$230,400 - $345,600
remotedatabaseengineeringdirectorpostgresqlsite_reliability_engineering
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
What You'll Do
- •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 in the context of product outcomes
- •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
Nice to Have
- •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
Benefits
- •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
About GitLab
GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams.
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