Engineering Manager at GitLab, Bengaluru

Engineering manager at GitLab Bengaluru, leading a distributed team across observability and reliability work.

This full-time Bengaluru role was posted on 26 September 2026. The listing describes leading, hiring, onboarding and developing a distributed engineering team working asynchronously, and setting priorities with Site Reliability Engineering, Product Engineering and GitLab Dedicated teams. Requirements include experience leading an observability, platform engineering or site reliability engineering team operating at scale, and technical knowledge of metrics systems such as Prometheus and long-term storage, and logging platforms such as Elasticsearch.

About GitLab

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that covers source code management, CI/CD, security scanning and planning in a single application. Its listings state that more than 50 million registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100 use the platform.

GitLab operates as an all-remote company with team members in many countries, including India. Its public handbook and listing pages describe an asynchronous, documentation-heavy way of working, and its listings note that team members are expected to use AI tooling in daily workflows. Learn more on GitLab's website.

The role in plain terms

The domain is specific: observability and reliability leadership, with named technologies (Prometheus, long-term storage, Elasticsearch) that will likely come up in the loop. Managing an async distributed team is its own skill the listing names directly - hiring and developing people you rarely see, through writing. The cross-team priority-setting with SRE, product and Dedicated teams indicates the team's work sits at a junction of several organisations.

The team and the work

Per the listing, GitLab works all-remote and asynchronously, and expects AI use in daily workflows. The team's scope spans observability for both the SaaS and the Dedicated (single-tenant) product lines.

What the employer asks for

These requirements are quoted from the employer's listing, kept in their exact words so eligibility details are not distorted:

Experience leading an observability, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team operating at scale, including supporting people in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
Technical knowledge of metrics systems such as Prometheus and long-term storage, logging platforms such as Elasticsearch or cloud-native services, and alerting design.
Experience using SLOs, error budgets, and capacity forecasts to make reliability and investment decisions.
Experience operating a large software-as-a-service platform and investigating production issues such as telemetry gaps, ingestion limits, or noisy and missing alerts.
Experience participating in and improving production on-call rotations, including incident coordination and balancing operational load with project work.
The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineering partners and other stakeholders.
Experience using AI tools or agents in engineering or management work; you can describe how you would apply them to operational problems such as incident...
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Who this role suits

Engineering managers who have led observability, platform or SRE teams at scale and are fluent in the Prometheus/logging ecosystem. Not for managers from feature-product teams without reliability-domain experience.

Practical notes

For EM roles in observability, expect questions on metrics/logging architecture trade-offs and on running an async team: hiring, feedback, and performance management without offices. Written artifacts from your current role help.

Working at GitLab

Roles at GitLab span the product itself (backend in Ruby and Go, frontend, security, infrastructure) plus internal systems teams that build the company's own tooling and automations.

How to apply

Apply directly on the employer's site: Engineering Manager at GitLab. We found this listing on the Greenhouse public job board (job-boards.greenhouse.io), where it was posted on 26 Sep 2026 and was still open when we checked on 30 Oct 2026. Before applying, re-read the employer's own description in full, since eligibility details, deadlines and process steps can change at any time and the employer's page is always the final word. Tailor your resume to the specific requirements above rather than sending a generic one: mirror the skills and tools the listing names where you genuinely have them. A short, specific note on why this team and this problem interest you goes further than a long generic cover letter. Never pay a fee to apply or interview; genuine employers, including this one, do not charge candidates.

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