Manager/Senior Manager, Cell Infrastructure at GitLab driving the technical direction and operational model for multi-cloud solutions. Establishing a high-impact team to enhance reliability and cost visibility.
Responsibilities
Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems that support GitLab's cell-based architecture.
Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure, spanning architecture, delivery, and production operations.
Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams to make unit economics part of the system design.
Own the reliability model for cell infrastructure, including on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem follow-through.
Partner with adjacent teams such as Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD to support their scaling and deployment needs.
Define and evolve architectural decisions for cross-cloud routing, data residency, and infrastructure portability.
Develop platform capabilities and developer tooling that let teams deploy on top of cell infrastructure without needing to understand its internal complexity.
Represent the team in cross-functional planning with senior engineering stakeholders on GitLab's broader cells and multi-cloud strategy.
Requirements
Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production using cell-based architecture.
Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including experience with on-call, incident management, and site reliability engineering practices.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as consistency models, partitioning and sharding, failure modes, and multi-region or multi-cloud tradeoffs.
Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment, with scope aligned to either a single team or a broader multi-team organization.
Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and, at the senior manager level, engineering managers.
Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools that other engineering teams use to build and deploy software.
Comfort working in ambiguity and helping define direction in an early-stage build rather than stepping into a maintenance-focused role; transferable experience from comparable large-scale infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, FinOps, AI-supporting systems, or major architecture transitions is welcome.
Clear cross-functional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with VP-level and CTO-level stakeholders.
Benefits
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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