Manager SRE - Database Reliability Team

An overview of this role

As an SRE Engineering manager on our Infrastructure: Database Reliability Team your primary focus lies on hiring and building a world-class team and putting them in the optimal position to succeed. You do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive and the team produces results.
While you work in an async and agile way, your work will improve the quality, security, and performance of the GitLab product. In this role, you will participate in the Incident Manager on-call rotation to help ensure that the availability goals for GitLab.com are met.

The Database Reliability team heavily utilizes PostgreSQL and is working on projects that enable us to scale horizontally, like the Cells. (WIP), scale vertically, store vectors in embedding databases, consistently achieve compliance with our compliance frameworks, improve product performance, manage capacity and improve availability.

What you’ll do

• Manage the database reliability team within reliability engineering and the availability, security & scalability of databases for GitLab.com

• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces results

• Hire and grow an incredible team that lives our values

• Managing Agile projects

• Improve the quality, security and performance of the product

What you’ll bring

• Experience with leading Database, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams

• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate this to understandable language for the business

• Experience hiring, coaching, growing, and retaining Engineering talent

• Deep technical understanding of Databases (Postgres) at scale

• Experience leading a team on a large-scale consumer platform

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

About the team

The Database Reliability team at GitLab mission is to Build, Run and Own the entire lifecycle of the PostgreSQL database engine for GitLab.com.

The team is focused on owning the reliability, scalability, performance & security of the database engine and its supporting services. The team should be seeking to build their services on top of Foundations services and cloud vendor managed products, where appropriate, to reduce complexity, improve efficiency and deliver new capabilities quicker.

The team uses Engineering Principals to guide the decisions it makes for it's services. The team does not explicitly have any self hosted product responsibilities but we should contribute the lessons we learn running the database engine for GitLab at scale in production back to the Product, Development & Support teams to improve overall customer experience with GitLab, as well as collaborating with the Support teams when self managed customers encounter complex database engine issues.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• All remote, asynchronous work environment

• Flexible Paid Time Off

• Team Member Resource GroupsEquity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Growth and development budget

• Parental leave

• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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