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Director of Engineering, Organizations & Cells
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Bangalore, India
Our take: The real work here is leading an engineering organization to rebuild GitLab.com on cells, migrating customers cleanly at scale while sequencing across many teams mostly in writing.
If you have led infrastructure programs where the hardest part was sequencing ten teams rather than writing the code, this charter is built for you. You will rebuild GitLab.com as a horizontally scalable cluster, migrate real customers onto cells with zero data loss, and grow the managers and engineers who make it happen. The work is written down, argued in the open, and judged by whether customers are actually running cleanly in production.
Needs
- setting direction
- building teams
- sequencing across teams
- distributed systems design
- cross-functional leadership
- writing to influence
Rewards
- visible platform impact
- genuinely high stakes
- measurable improvements
- teams you built thriving
Demands
- multi-quarter programs
- async across time zones
- zero-downtime migrations
- peer to senior leaders
- remote by default
Grows
- developing managers
- ai-native architecture
- distributed systems strategy
- influence through writing
Values
- transparency
- honest candour
- rigour
- learning culture
- ambition
Drains
- big org navigation
- careful migration grind
- endless written docs
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