Description
GitLab is seeking a technical Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Overview of the Role
We're looking for a technical engineering manager to lead a team building and operating large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong operational instincts and a passion for building high-performing teams.
Responsibilities
- Enable effective execution with Quality and Speed, in partnership with the team's Product Manager
- Ensure 3+ 9s availability of Dedicated infrastructure, ensuring security and automating for maximum scalability and number of tenants
- Provide clear direction, meaningful feedback and foster an environment where meaningless toil gets ruthlessly automated and DevOps ownership is enforced
- Continuously improve owned artifacts in a direction of optimizing platforms for self-service ownership of production for feature implementers
- Recruitment, onboarding and development of excellent and productive team members
- Be a role model for the team: provide Proof of concepts, agentic mindset and extreme simplification of processes and removal of human toil
- Role model Incident Management best-practices, lead in fast resolutions, escalations and train and codify best practices to the whole of GitLab
- Data-driven approach to prioritization, impact quantification and management of risk and technical debt
Requirements
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
- Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-nines (99.99%) SLOs and know what it takes to keep them there
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with real lessons learned from both wins and missteps
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated TPM
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively
About the Team
The Enterprise Platform team focuses on delivering the infrastructure and operational capabilities that let large, security-conscious customers run GitLab on their own terms. Within that group, the Dedicated team builds and operates GitLab Dedicated, our single-tenant SaaS offering that gives customers full data and source code isolation, private networking, and data residency in the AWS region of their choice , all deployed and maintained by GitLab with zero infrastructure overhead for the customer.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave