Build and lead a new globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and grow their careers.
Hire, onboard, and develop engineers who embody GitLab's values and hold themselves to a high standard of quality and ownership.
Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the roadmap, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver against product commitments.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence across reliability, performance, security, and maintainability, while keeping the pace expected in a fast-moving product area.
Champion AI as a core part of how the team works, encouraging engineers to incorporate AI tools into their daily workflows to drive efficiency and innovation.
Hold regular 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development.
Drive a healthy delivery cadence by maintaining visibility into milestone progress, identifying blockers early, and proactively addressing patterns before they require escalation.
Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure availability targets for GitLab.com are met.
Requirements
Demonstrated leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical credibility to provide architectural guidance and participate meaningfully in technical discussions.
Strong background in distributed systems and durable workflow execution, including state persistence and replay patterns.
Experience building or leading teams working on release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery at scale.
Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and GitOps workflows, including progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
Experience with policy-based governance and event-driven architectures in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.
Proven ability to build and lead teams in early-stage contexts, including defining team processes, hiring foundational members, and establishing a strong team culture.
Strong cross-functional alignment and consensus-building skills, with the ability to drive decisions and execution even in the face of ambiguity or competing priorities.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a bias toward async, handbook-first practices and transparency.
Experience in remote-first, globally distributed organizations and comfort operating in environments with high autonomy and high accountability.
Track record of fostering inclusive team cultures where engineers feel psychologically safe to contribute, take calculated risks, and hold each other to high standards.
Strong alignment with GitLab's values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, Transparency) with demonstrated examples from previous roles.
Tech Stack
Distributed Systems
Kubernetes
Benefits
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan