Engineering Manager, Data Foundations at Gitlab

Engineering Manager, Data Foundations at Gitlab · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

In Data Foundations, we build the engineering systems that make platform data reliable, scalable, and available to product teams across GitLab, and you’ll help guide that work.
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 such as Siphon, Query API integrations, classic search initiatives, and self-service reporting foundations.
Own delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, execution, and operational follow-through across architecture work, platform improvements, and production readiness, with clear accountability for roadmap milestones and delivery outcomes.
Guide the technical design of distributed data-path components, including ingestion, buffering, enrichment, exporting, and querying, and shape architecture choices on sharding, partitioning, component-specific scaling, failure recovery, and tenant isolation across SaaS, Dedicated, self-managed, and Cells deployments, with a strong focus on reliability, throughput, operability, and maintainability.
Help the team design safe and scalable integrations with the GitLab monolith, including gRPC/Protobuf-based query paths and clear ownership boundaries between DIP and product teams building user-facing GraphQL or REST endpoints.
Drive a high bar for security, privacy, and governance in how platform data is handled, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and safe handling of data with different privacy classifications.
Improve operational maturity across the platform, including observability, metrics, logging, readiness, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and clear runbooks for managed environments, with a focus on improving availability, throughput, latency, and time to recovery.
Collaborate asynchronously across teams and functions to help GitLab land customer-facing reporting capabilities on top of a strong, scalable data foundation.
Lead the design and evolution of the platform with a focus on modular architecture, ensuring systems are extensible and ready for AI-driven integrations.
What you’ll bring
Experience managing platform, infrastructure, or data systems teams at scale, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.

Engineering Manager, Data Foundations

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