Engineering Manager – Supply Chain at GitLab

Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
Be responsible for Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by addressing risks early.
Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning as the Add-On scales.
Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.

Experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevSecOps, or platform engineering environments.
Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies.
Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.
Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.

Engineering Manager – Supply Chain