Engineering Manager
Core
Lead the globally distributed Observability team building and operating metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms for GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Production Engineering)
Builds
Metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms
Domain
SaaS Infrastructure / Observability
Required skills
Team leadership in distributed environments, Prometheus and long-term storage, logging platforms (Elasticsearch), alerting design, SLOs and error budgets, incident coordination, AI tool usage in engineering workflows
Preferred skills
Experience with high-cardinality metrics, distributed tracing, capacity forecasting tools (Tamland)
Responsibilities
Lead, hire, and develop a distributed engineering team; Set priorities with SRE and Product Engineering teams; Own reliability, scalability, and cost of observability platforms; Reduce noisy alerts and telemetry gaps; Guide technical decisions on time-series storage and tracing; Participate in incident response rotations; Maintain sustainable on-call coverage
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
