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Role Overview As Engineering Manager, Database Change Management, you'll lead a remote backend engineering team in the Database Excellence stage. The team owns database health and the database upgrade experience across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. You'll guide two missions at once: keeping one of the largest PostgreSQL installations in the world within its capacity limits, and delivering a multi-year replacement of GitLab's database migration system so customer upgrades become dramatically faster and safer. What You Will Do 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. Why It Might Be a Fit 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. Requirements Engineering management experience leading remote, distributed teams across many time zones Production PostgreSQL experience, including capacity planning Experience leading a long-horizon platform or infrastructure program Hiring and team-building experience Strong written communication skills Experience coaching and developing backend engineers across multiple levels Benefits Flexible Paid Time Off Team Member Resource Groups Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan Growth and Development Fund Parental Leave

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