Engineering Manager - Database Change Management

GitLab is hiring an Engineering Manager - Database Change Management in Bangalore.

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Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team of backend engineers working fully asynchronously across time zones.

• Hire, onboard, and develop an India-based engineering cluster, including intermediate engineers and a senior technical anchor.

• Balance the team's database health responsibilities with the multi-quarter migration system replacement so both missions continue to make progress.

• Protect the replatforming program's critical path by limiting production interruptions for engineers focused on it while meeting the team's operational commitments.

• Coach engineers from intermediate through senior levels, supporting their growth, ownership, and impact.

• Run the team async-first through written decision records, visible priorities, and management practices that work when team members share few or no working hours.

• Partner with Distribution, Quality Assurance (QA), database framework teams, Database Architecture, Database Automation, and infrastructure leadership.

• Represent the team's capacity, priorities, risks, and delivery status to senior engineering leadership.

What you’ll bring

• Engineering management experience leading remote, distributed teams across many time zones, including team members with little or no overlap with your working day.

• Production PostgreSQL experience, including capacity planning and enough technical depth to contribute credibly to migration system and reliability design discussions without needing to own the designs.

• Experience leading a long-horizon platform or infrastructure program alongside operational responsibilities and keeping both on track.

• Hiring and team-building experience, including experience standing up a new team or site cluster, or closely related work.

• Strong written communication skills and experience using writing as a primary management tool.

• Experience coaching and developing backend engineers across multiple levels.

• Ability to set priorities and protect focus while maintaining production health and meeting operational commitments.

About GitLab

We work fully asynchronously and handbook-first with Database Architecture, Database Automation, Distribution, and QA. Our work helps address the fact that roughly a third of self-managed customers are two or more upgrade stops behind. How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees