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Engineering Manager, Geo for Self-Managed Customers

GitLab
Backend Developer • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Remote
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GitLab is looking for a technical engineering manager (UK-based) to lead the Geo for Self-Managed Customers team, which owns the Geo product end to end. Geo is tenant-to-tenant replication that underpins customers' disaster recovery strategies. The role combines deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems with strong operational instincts and building high-performing teams; the team is India-anchored, with EMEA backend/fullstack hiring to improve timezone overlap.

Stack

GitLab

Responsibilities

  • ▹Lead the roadmap and execution for the Geo product serving Self-Managed customers, in close partnership with the team's Product Manager.
  • ▹Hire and develop a high-performing engineering team where members can thrive and deliver with quality and speed.
  • ▹Own the reliability, correctness, and performance of Geo replication as the core layer underpinning disaster recovery for Self-Managed deployments.
  • ▹Deliver bug fixes, API extensions, and new capabilities to the shared Geo codebase, maintaining relationships with the Geo SMEs embedded in the Dedicated Migrations and Resilience teams.
  • ▹Build and maintain runbooks, guardrails, and reviews; ensure high-quality, timely responses to Geo-related escalations from Support and internal partners.
  • ▹Define, track, and report on delivery and operational metrics to drive continuous improvement.
  • ▹Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help meet Geo availability goals.

Requirements

  • ▹Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to guide the team on architecture and technical strategy.
  • ▹Experience driving operational excellence, having owned services running at four-nines (99.99%) SLOs.
  • ▹Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with lessons learned from wins and missteps.
  • ▹A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary.
  • ▹Comfort driving complex projects to completion without a dedicated TPM.
  • ▹Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively.

Soft skills

People leadershipOperational rigorAccountabilityCross-team relationship buildingContinuous improvement mindset

What we offer

  • ▹Flexible paid time off.
  • ▹Team Member Resource Groups.
  • ▹Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • ▹Growth and Development Fund.
  • ▹Parental leave.
  • ▹Fully remote work.

About the company

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100. The company operates as an all-remote, async-first organization and embeds AI as a core productivity multiplier across its products and teams.