Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure

## 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; ## Nice to Have - Transferable experience in AI-driven development workflows or related technologies. ## Benefits - High-impact leadership role where you'll define architecture as much as you'll deliver it. - Opportunity to work with industry leaders to solve complex problems. - Collaborative environment where every voice is valued. - Continuous knowledge exchange and professional growth opportunities.