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Director of Engineering, Database Excellence
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is setting long-range direction for GitLab's databases while coaching managers and owning the reliability, cost, and capacity that keeps GitLab.com alive.
If you love keeping the databases that millions depend on both healthy and affordable, this is your seat. You will set long-range direction for PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse and more, coach three managers and grow staff engineers into leaders, all while owning the capacity and availability that keeps GitLab.com running. It suits someone who thinks in decades, writes things down so a distributed team can act, and enjoys making hard infrastructure tradeoffs in the open.
Needs
- setting direction
- coaching managers
- tending infrastructure
- cross-team decisions
- managing risk
- writing clearly
Rewards
- high stakes ownership
- visible reliability
- growing leaders
- data-driven calls
Demands
- being on call
- work in the open
- fully remote
- distributed teams
Grows
- leading leaders
- platform strategy
- postgres at scale
- earning trust
Values
- frugality with cost
- sustainable systems
- radical transparency
- long-term thinking
- engineering rigour
Drains
- okrs and kpis
- performance reviews
- hiring plans
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