Engineering Manager, Monitoring

Responsibilities

• Hire a world class team of engineers to work on their team
• Help engineers grow their skills and experience
• Create a sense of psychological safety on your team
• Recommend monitoring technical and process improvements
• Draft quarterly OKRs
• Prioritizes and guides the effort to scope GitLab's Prometheus monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Manage the bundling of Prometheus as an out-of-the-box monitoring solution for GitLab CE/EE packages
• Improve coverage of GitLab performance monitoring
• Prioritize features that enable measurement of applications deployed with GitLab
• Create automated alerts to notify team members of regressions
• Ensures that there is a written onboarding and process that is effective and followed
• Performs 1:1's with all reports every 2-5 weeks (depending on the experience of the report)
• Is available for 1:1's on demand of the report
• Uses the contributor analytics to ensure that anyone who is stuck is helped
• Reviews and manages a significant amount of the merge requests made by developers
• Document answers and improve existing documentation
• Write blog posts relevant to the community

Requirements

• Experience managing a team of developers
• Experience writing and reviewing code for production-level applications in Go and/or Ruby on Rails
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with managing large amounts of product analytics
• Experience working with time-series databases
• Leadership at GitLab
• Ability to use GitLab

About GitLab

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:

1. Mission: Everyone can contribute
2. Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
3. Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
4. Transparency: Over 2,000 webpages in GitLab handbook, GitLab Unfiltered YouTube channel
5. Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
6. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
7. Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
8. Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
9. Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
10. Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices

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