Engineering Manager - GitLab Delivery: Operate

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join our team at GitLab, focusing on GitLab Delivery: Operate. In this remote role, you will guide a globally distributed engineering team, enhancing the deployment and operational capabilities of GitLab. This is a unique opportunity to influence how GitLab is delivered at scale while supporting a high-performing team.

What You'll Do

• Lead a globally distributed engineering team, fostering a collaborative environment where team members can thrive in a remote, asynchronous setting.
• Hire, onboard, and develop team members who align with GitLab’s values and contribute to an outcome-focused engineering organization.
• Manage and improve agile workflows to ensure the team delivers deployment tooling and services iteratively and reliably.
• Collaborate with Product Management and engineering peers to align team priorities with customer needs and business goals.
• Own the reliability and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments and GitLab.com.
• Enhance deployment patterns, observability, and zero-downtime capabilities for customers running GitLab.
• Apply technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes Operators and Helm charts to guide decisions and unblock the team.
• Participate in incident management and collaborate with reliability teams to support the availability of GitLab.com.

Requirements

• Experience managing deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams operating at scale.
• Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
• Understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures and database lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms in a product-focused software environment.
• Ability to analyze complex deployment issues and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience in building high-performing, distributed teams in a remote environment.
• Effective collaboration skills across functions to improve customer outcomes.
• Openness to diverse paths into the role, including transferable skills or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Interest in open source and developer tools.
• Experience with incident management and reliability engineering.

What We Offer

• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental leave and home office support.

Join GitLab as an Engineering Manager and help us build technology that transforms how the world develops software. This remote role offers the opportunity to work with a high-performance team and make a significant impact in the DevOps space.