Director of Engineering, Database Excellence

GitLab is seeking a Director of Engineering, Database Excellence to lead the Database Excellence stage and report to the VP of Data Engineering. The Director sets direction for the databases supporting GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated. The organization owns reliability, capacity, health, and sustainability of GitLab's application datastores, with PostgreSQL as the primary focus alongside Redis, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and object storage. Remote US. Salary: $230,400–$345,600 USD. Posted 2026-09-29.

• Experience leading managers of managers, including coaching newer managers. • Experience working hands-on with PostgreSQL at scale, including capacity planning, upgrades, replication, performance, and large production clusters. • Experience using data to make strategic technical decisions and connect database platform investments and tradeoffs with product outcomes. • Experience supporting software that customers run themselves, or working through the self-managed upgrade challenge. • Experience leading backend engineering teams that own production infrastructure, applying SRE practices including SLOs, on-call operations, incident management, cost management, and automation. • Experience communicating clearly in writing in an asynchronous, handbook-first company. • Experience leading globally distributed remote teams.