What you will do

• Lead the Durability team within the Data Access sub-department according to GitLab’s values and leadership principles
• Partner with a Product Manager and other engineering teams to ensure a scalable, reliable, performant, and sustainable storage solution for data storage and access patterns
• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces Results for Customers
• Hire and grow an incredible team that lives our values
• Manage Agile projects
• Improve the quality, security and performance of the product
• Participate in the Incident Manager on-call rotation

What you will bring

• Experience leading SaaS systems, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
• Experience leading software engineering teams
• Strong technical background in a relevant field
• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate this to understandable language relevant to an audience of varied technical abilities
• Experience hiring, coaching, growing, and retaining Engineering talent
• Deep technical understanding of running SaaS applications and infrastructure at scale
• Experience leading a team on a large-scale consumer platform
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills