Engineering Manager - GitLab Delivery (Remote)

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager for GitLab Delivery to join our innovative team at GitLab. This remote position will empower you to lead a globally distributed team dedicated to enhancing our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our customers can deploy, upgrade, and operate GitLab reliably in their infrastructure.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed GitLab Delivery team, fostering an environment where team members can thrive and consistently deliver results.
• Hire, onboard, and mentor team members who embody GitLab’s values, contributing to a peak-performance organization.
• Manage and enhance agile, asynchronous workflows to iteratively deliver high-quality deployment tooling and services.
• Collaborate with Product Management and peers across Infrastructure Platforms to align deployment tooling with business goals and customer needs.
• Own the reliability, upgrade velocity, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.
• Improve customer experiences by refining deployment patterns, zero-downtime capabilities, observability, and overall upgrade experiences.
• Utilize your strong technical background in Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration to guide engineering decisions and unblock your team.
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation, collaborating with reliability engineers and development teams to meet availability targets for GitLab.com.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams operating at scale.
• Strong technical background with practical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management for stateful systems such as PostgreSQL, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
• Experience running and supporting consumer-scale or enterprise-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software company or startup environment.
• Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and communicate tradeoffs and findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience building and supporting high-performing, distributed teams, including managing in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
• Effective collaborator who works closely with cross-functional teams such as Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success to improve customer outcomes.
• Openness to candidates with diverse backgrounds and transferable skills, including formal computer science education or equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice to Have

• Interest in open source and developer tools.

What We Offer

• Flexible Paid Time Off to support your work-life balance.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund for your professional development.
• Parental leave to support your family needs.
• Home office support to ensure you have the resources you need.

At GitLab, we value diversity and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.