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Engineering Manager

Job Overview

In your first year, you'll guide improvements to Prometheus-based metrics pipelines, log ingestion and retention, alerting driven by service-level objectives (SLOs), and capacity forecasting. You'll work with Site Reliability Engineering, Product Engineering, and other Infrastructure Platforms teams to make it easier for engineers to observe the services they own.

Key points

  1. Lead, hire, onboard, and develop a distributed engineering team working asynchronously.

  2. Set priorities with Site Reliability Engineering, Product Engineering, and GitLab Dedicated teams, and help the team deliver observability services iteratively.

  3. Own the reliability, scalability, and cost of the team's metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms.

  4. Reduce noisy or missing alerts and telemetry gaps, and use SLOs, error budgets, and self-service instrumentation to help engineers maintain the health of their…

  5. Experience leading an observability, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team operating at scale, including supporting people in a distributed, asynchronous environment.

  6. Technical knowledge of metrics systems such as Prometheus and long-term storage, logging platforms such as Elasticsearch or cloud-native services, and alerting design.

  7. Experience using SLOs, error budgets, and capacity forecasts to make reliability and investment decisions.

  8. Experience operating a large software-as-a-service platform and investigating production issues such as telemetry gaps, ingestion limits, or noisy and missing alerts.

Skills

GitRecruitingForecastingCampaign ManagementStakeholder Management

Experience: Mid-level

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