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Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Bangalore, India
Our take: The real work here is leading a zero to one build of the multi-cloud control layer that provisions and operates GitLab cells, defining the architecture and growing the team that runs it.
If you light up designing the control layer that lets a platform run reliably across many clouds, this is a rare zero to one seat where you define the architecture and build the team that runs it. You will balance portability, data residency, reliability, and cost while growing engineers and shaping direction with senior leaders. It suits someone who is genuinely at home in ambiguity and wants their fingerprints on how a global platform scales next.
Needs
- systems design
- running distributed infra
- building the team
- zero to one build
- cross-team work
- incident response
- architectural decisions
Rewards
- setting direction
- visible high impact
- technical strategy
- developing engineers
- defining from scratch
Demands
- comfort in ambiguity
- carrying the pager
- stakeholder diplomacy
- high stakes scaling
Grows
- finops instincts
- distributed systems depth
- platform building
- cross-team influence
- balancing tradeoffs
Values
- learning culture
- engineering rigour
- cost efficiency
- remote first
- working in the open
- reliability first
Drains
- on-call rotations
- cost governance chores
- navigating a big org
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