# Director of Engineering, Database Excellence at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8853843002?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
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## About the 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 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
- Lead and coach three Engineering Managers and develop Staff-plus engineers into leaders
- Drive cross-division technical decisions using data, partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Distribution, Support, Security, and FinOps
- Partner with Product to prioritize database platform investments and make infrastructure tradeoffs in the context of product outcomes
- Own the hiring plan, organization design, retention, and performance management for teams across regions

Tags: Data Engineering

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