Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git

Git Lab is the intelligent orchestration platform for Dev Sec Ops . Git Lab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust Git Lab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. Git Lab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high‑performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

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As an Engineering Manager, Git at Git Lab, you’ll guide a deeply technical team focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on the Git version control system. The team’s work spans upstream development of Git, support for teams across Git Lab, new tooling, scalability improvements, new data formats, and ongoing maintenance of the Git codebase.

This role is a good fit for you if you can guide senior and staff engineers through complex, long‑horizon technical work while building a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership. You’ll help the team balance upstream open‑source development with Git Lab product and infrastructure priorities, especially as much of the team’s work is centered on Scaling Git and adjacent foundational work.

You’ll work in an upstream‑first environment where strong relationships with the Git community matter. Mailing‑list based collaboration, clear written communication, and thoughtful technical judgment are central to how this team succeeds.

• Scaling Git
• Git-related infrastructure and foundational performance work

• Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git‑related infrastructure.
• Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm.
• Drive execution on complex, long‑horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture.
• Help the team balance upstream open‑source development with Git Lab product and infrastructure priorities.
• Support your engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities.
• Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team.
• Partner with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity.
• Represent the team credibly with cross‑functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability.

• Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• A management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership, with credibility grounded in consistency, follow‑through, and technical judgment.
• Proven ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high‑stakes technical tradeoffs, and the realities of upstream open‑source development, including community review and long feedback cycles.
• Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi‑timezone teams. You’re comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings.
• A track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long‑horizon technical projects with clear outcomes, and of reasoning from fundamentals about maintainability, technical debt, and long‑term platform viability.
• Hands‑on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other…