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Engineering Manager
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Bangalore, India
Our take: The real work here is leading a distributed team that keeps GitLab's observability platforms reliable, affordable, and quiet enough that on-call stays humane.
If you love running a calm, capable platform team and you care about keeping observability signals honest, this is a role where your judgement shapes how thousands of engineers understand their own systems. You will own metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity forecasting at real scale, coach a distributed team, and keep on-call humane rather than heroic. The best fit is someone who finds satisfaction in reducing noise, making tradeoffs clear, and growing people, all from wherever they work best.
Needs
- leading a team
- developing engineers
- observability systems design
- incident response
- forecasting capacity
Rewards
- cross-team work
- fully remote
- real ownership
- visible impact
Demands
- carrying the pager
- incident coordination
- time zone coverage
- async coordination
Grows
- stakeholder diplomacy
- platform strategy
- coaching engineers
- applying ai to ops
Values
- sustainable on-call
- rigour in signals
- iterative pragmatism
- engineer accountability
Drains
- reviewing ai output
- post-incident paperwork
- chasing alert noise
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