Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Manager, Engineering, Git & Gitaly Operations based in India.** This leadership role is focused on building and operating the core infrastructure that powers large-scale software collaboration platforms. You will lead a team responsible for critical Git-based services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across multiple deployment environments. The position combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems, storage, and production operations with people leadership and strategic ownership. You will influence platform architecture, operational practices, and engineering standards while partnering with teams across the organization. The role requires strong judgment in managing complex infrastructure challenges and driving continuous improvements. You will help shape resilient systems that support developers and customers at global scale within a remote-first, high-performance environment ### Accountabilities: The role is responsible for leading the engineering team that owns critical Git infrastructure operations, driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across multiple deployment models. You will combine technical depth with leadership skills to improve platform performance, manage complex production environments, and establish strong engineering practices. - Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering team focused on Git-based infrastructure, platform operations, and reliability. - Own production reliability for core repository management services across self-managed, dedicated, and SaaS environments. - Drive incident management processes, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements with a deep understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure behavior. - Design and evolve service models that support different deployment environments while maintaining consistency and operational efficiency. - Define cloud-agnostic architecture strategies and avoid unnecessary dependency on specific infrastructure providers. - Partner with engineering teams responsible for different deployment models to maintain aligned operational standards and practices. - Apply distributed systems expertise, including concepts such as replication, consistency, scalability, and failure management. - Lead storage and compute strategies for large-scale repository data, including capacity planning, scalability improvements, and resource optimization. - Promote operational excellence through automation, monitoring, reliability improvements, and continuous engineering evolution. ## Requirements: The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with strong expertise in Git technologies, distributed systems, and large-scale production infrastructure. This role requires a balance of technical knowledge, operational experience, and the ability to mentor and grow engineering teams. - Proven experience leading engineering, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability teams. - Strong hands-on understanding of Git internals, including Git protocols, object models, storage mechanisms, and performance behavior under scale. - Experience operating production infrastructure across multiple environments, such as SaaS, dedicated, self-managed, or hybrid deployments. - Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals, including replication, consistency models, failure handling, and horizontal scalability. - Experience designing and operating scalable storage and compute solutions for high-volume workloads. - Familiarity with Git implementation technologies such as Gitaly, libgit2, JGit, or similar systems is highly desirable. - Experience managing teams focused on reliability engineering, infrastructure operations, or platform engineering. - Ability to make architectural decisions in complex technical environments while balancing reliability, scalability, and operational…