Director of Engineering, Database Excellence
At GitLab
Posted 3 Nov 2026 · Application link last checked 15 Nov 2026
Who Can Apply
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Role Overview
An overview of this role
As Director of Engineering, Database Excellence, you will lead the Database Excellence stage and report to the Vice President of Data Engineering, in our Engineering department. You will set the direction for the databases that support GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitLab Dedicated. Your organization owns the reliability, capacity, health, and sustainability of GitLab's application datastores, with PostgreSQL as the primary focus alongside Redis, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and object storage.
You will be accountable for database capacity and availability on GitLab.com. You will guide long-range platform decisions while partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps. The work includes reducing infrastructure costs, improving data growth controls and saturation detection, standardizing database services, rebuilding the self-managed upgrade experience, and contributing to GitLab's company-wide datastore strategy, including Cells partitioning. Learn more in the Database Excellence handbook.
What you’ll do
- Set direction and long-range plans for the database platform in line with company strategy.
- Own database capacity and availability outcomes for GitLab.com, and communicate database risk to senior leadership.
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