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Director of Analytics Engineering at GitLab (Remote, US)

Lead GitLab’s analytics engineering team and shape data strategy for its DevSecOps platform. Build trusted semantic models, AI-enabled data access, BI tools, and company-wide data applications.

USUnited States
$139,200 – $285,600 / year
RemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredAnalytics Engineer
PostgresPythonReactSQLTableauTypeScript

Description

  • Lead an eight-person team reporting to the VP of Data & Insights.
  • Set direction for the data organization and guide its technical decisions.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Science, IT, and business leaders.
  • Develop and maintain a trusted semantic model with governed metrics and business definitions.
  • Create evaluation and ground-truth datasets to assess answer quality and detect regressions.
  • Track usage of the semantic model and AI tools through telemetry.
  • Develop a model-selection system to route work among LLMs while balancing cost and quality.
  • Manage data modeling and curated self-service datasets, including ownership, data contracts, testing, and documentation.
  • Define AI data access across BI, Claude, MCP servers, and Slack agents.
  • Set strategy for enterprise BI and self-service tools, covering evaluation, adoption, and cost.
  • Develop self-service resources such as Claude skills, documentation, and guided workflows.
  • Create company-wide data applications that combine Snowflake data, APIs, AI analysis, and write-back to Postgres or Snowflake.
  • Establish engineering standards for application security, authentication, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Set a long-term roadmap and operating model that support company strategy.
  • Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of eight.
  • Use GitLab and GitLab Duo in data workflows as an internal early adopter, and share feedback with Product and Engineering.

Requirements

  • Bring at least 12 years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or BI.
  • Have at least 5 years of team leadership experience.
  • Have at least 2 years managing managers or senior leads.
  • Bring deep data modeling and semantic layer expertise, such as dbt Semantic Layer, Snowflake semantic views, LookML, or Cube.
  • Be highly proficient with dbt, including testing and CI/CD on multi-team projects.
  • Have hands-on experience building LLM-based data access, including text-to-SQL, agents, MCP servers, evaluations, and answer-quality telemetry.
  • Be an advanced user of AI coding agents such as Claude Code.
  • Have expert SQL skills and strong Snowflake experience.
  • Have working knowledge of Python.
  • Bring strong data governance experience covering data quality, lineage, certified datasets, and access controls such as RBAC, row access, and masking policies.
  • Show a record of leading cross-functional data initiatives from strategy through adoption and measurable business impact.
  • Have experience with enterprise BI and self-service tools at scale.
  • Be able to use GitLab, work effectively in an all-remote asynchronous company, model GitLab’s remote working competencies, and act in line with its values.
  • Preferred: Experience with LLM routing or gateway tools and model cost management.
  • Preferred: Experience with Tableau, Omni, or BI platform migration.
  • Preferred: Experience developing web applications with tools such as React, TypeScript, and Postgres.
  • Preferred: Experience owning finance- or revenue-critical data.

Benefits

  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Remote work for all roles.
  • AI integrated into daily workflows as a productivity tool.

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