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Engineering Manager, Architecture Engineering: Async
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is leading a distributed team that keeps GitLab.com's background processing and caching platform fast and reliable, while guiding a major migration to a durable workflow engine.
If you love being the calm hand on a platform that millions depend on, this is your team. You will grow site reliability and backend engineers while owning the reliability of GitLab.com's job processing and caching layer, from Redis upgrades to a durable workflow engine migration. The best fit here is someone who finds deep satisfaction in steady reliability, honest scope conversations, and helping a distributed team do its best work.
Needs
- building the team
- growing careers
- owning platform reliability
- commanding incidents
- roadmap planning
Rewards
- real platform ownership
- visible reliability impact
- accelerating careers
Demands
- carrying the pager
- high-severity incidents
- leading across time zones
- defending scope
- nonstop operational pressure
Grows
- reliability systems design
- root cause follow-ups
- leading platform migrations
- automating toil
Values
- rigour
- reliability over haste
- inclusion
- working in the open
Drains
- weekly ops reviews
- shift handovers
- escalation support
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