Director of Engineering, GitLab
Database Excellence
$230.4-345.6k
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock
One DevOps platform
Be an early applicant
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230.4-345.6k
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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 is a plus
- 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
What the job involves
- As Director of Engineering, Database Excellence, you will lead the Database Excellence stage and report to the Vice President of Data Engineering
- You will set the direction for the databases that support GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated
- Your organization owns the reliability, capacity, health, and sustainability of GitLab's application datastores, with PostgreSQL as the primary focus alongside Redis, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and object storage
- You will be accountable for database capacity and availability on GitLab.com
- You will guide long-range platform decisions while partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps
- The work includes reducing infrastructure costs, improving data growth controls and saturation detection, standardizing database services, rebuilding the self-managed upgrade experience, and contributing to GitLab's company-wide datastore strategy, including Cells partitioning
- Learn more in the Database Excellence handbook
- 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
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.1m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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