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Director of Engineering, Database Excellence
@ GitLab
Télétravail au Canada
En bref
GitLab is hiring a Director of Engineering, Database Excellence to lead the Database Excellence stage and set direction for databases supporting GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated. The role owns database capacity, availability, cost and upgrades, with PostgreSQL as the primary focus, and leads three Engineering Managers plus cross-functional partners. The posting states a US base salary range of $230,400 to $345,600 USD.
Responsabilités :
- Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform
- Own database capacity and availability for GitLab.com
- Lead and coach three Engineering Managers and Staff-plus engineers
- Drive cross-division technical decisions with data
- Manage the database infrastructure budget with FinOps
Résumé des exigences :
- Experience leading managers of managers
- Hands-on PostgreSQL experience at scale
- Experience using data for strategic technical decisions
- Experience with self-managed software or upgrades
- Experience leading SRE-focused backend teams
- Experience leading globally distributed remote teams
Outils et compétences
Avantages mentionnés
Source et dates
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- Date publiée par l’employeur
- 2026-09-29
- Première détection par notre source
- 2026-10-08
- Mise à jour du dossier source
- 2026-11-06
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Détails du poste
| Niveau | Directeur ou directrice |
| Domaine | Génie |
| Gestion d’équipe | Oui |
| Heures par semaine | 40 (estimé) |
| Milieu de travail | Domicile |
| Position | Surtout assis |
| Exigences physiques | physique faible · ordinateur élevé |
| Langues | English |
| Avantages mentionnés | Congés payés généreux, Horaire flexible, Congé parental généreux, Actions ou participation, Mieux-être |
Résumé et détails rédigés par l’IA à partir de l’offre; l’offre de l’employeur fait foi.
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GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks across the software lifecycle. Agents handle code generation, security analysis, code review, CI/CD troubleshooting, and custom workflows — while teams maintain control through enterprise governance. Build what's next with us. Explore open roles and join our talent community: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
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- Personnes associées sur LinkedIn
- 3 416
- Bureaux déclarés
- 268 Bush St, San Francisco, California, US
- Catégories d’activité
- Cloud Security
- Software
- Enterprise Software
- SaaS
- Developer Tools
- DevOps
- Open Source
- Autres noms enregistrés
- GitLab
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- Le profil indique une agence de recrutement
- Non
- Investissement total déclaré
- 413 500 000
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GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks…
| Champ | Valeur |
|---|---|
| Secteur | IT Services and IT Consulting |
| Taille | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Siège social | San Francisco, California |
| Type d’organisation | Public Company |
| Fondée en | 2014 |
| Offres sur Jobsy | 70 |
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An overview of this role
As Director of Engineering, Database Excellence, you will lead the Database Excellence stage and report to the Vice President of Data Engineering, in our Engineering department. 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.
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.
- Take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
What you’ll bring
- 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.
About the team
Database Excellence includes Database Architecture, Database Automation, and Self Managed Database. Three Engineering Managers lead these teams, alongside an Operations Manager. Our teams work across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. Database Architecture provides datastore guidance, data growth controls, and the database review process. Database Automation builds PostgreSQL fleet automation, upgrades, provisioning, health monitoring, and an internal managed PostgreSQL offering. Self Managed Database is rebuilding the upgrade and migration experience for self-managed GitLab. Together, we make database services more reliable, sustainable, and easier to operate across GitLab's deployment models.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
United States Salary Range
$230,400—$345,600 USD
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- 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
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