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Strong employer brand, remote role, popular engineering manager title, and metro hiring pool increase competition.
Deep PostgreSQL and platform engineering experience required, limiting transferability across unrelated industries.
Mandatory PostgreSQL production and platform leadership plus engineering management skills make screening highly stringent.
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Lead a remote backend engineering team responsible for database health and database upgrade experience across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments.
Manage and grow a new India-based engineering cluster while delivering a multi-year replacement of GitLab's database migration system to accelerate and secure customer upgrades.
Maintain production database health and program delivery through asynchronous work and cross-functional collaboration, balancing operational and strategic goals.
Experience managing remote, distributed backend engineering teams across multiple time zones.
Production PostgreSQL experience including capacity planning and technical contribution to migration system or reliability design discussions.
Experience leading a long-term platform or infrastructure program alongside operational responsibilities.
Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Able to successfully lead and build a new engineering cluster or team within India while managing cross-timezone asynchronous teams.
Proficient in balancing long-horizon platform initiatives with ongoing operational commitments to maintain production stability.
Skilled in using strong written communication and handbook-first management practices for remote team leadership and cross-functional partnership.