Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. The Vice President of Engineering will oversee a globally distributed engineering organization, defining engineering strategy and driving operational excellence while championing AI-native practices across workflows and products.

Responsibilities:

• Define the engineering strategy for your functional area, aligning roadmap, investments, and organizational planning with GitLab's company direction
• Lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization across multiple product domains, supporting Directors, Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, and their teams
• Drive operational excellence through clear engineering metrics, strong incident management practices, and a disciplined approach to reliability, quality, and developer productivity
• Champion AI-native engineering practices across workflows, platforms, and products, including developer tooling, code review, and CI/CD
• Partner with Product Management to create a consistent, high-velocity working model between engineering and product teams
• Collaborate with Finance and executive peers on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment tradeoffs
• Work with Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and security leaders to address enterprise needs and support strategic initiatives
• Represent your engineering organization in executive discussions, board-level conversations, and external forums through clear communication and transparent documentation

Requirements:

• Experience leading large engineering organizations across multiple product areas in a distributed environment, including leadership through Directors and Senior Managers
• Strong technical credibility with the ability to engage senior individual contributors and leaders on architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and system design tradeoffs
• Background building scalable frontend platforms or large-scale user-facing systems, alongside backend or infrastructure experience
• Direct experience modernizing a monolithic application into modular, independently deployable architecture in production, including runtime composition decisions and migration sequencing
• Experience developing or scaling a design system that acts as a reliable contract between platform and product teams, with attention to versioning, testing, and documentation
• Familiarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows, with a clear understanding of the difference between AI features and AI-native architecture
• Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with clear written communication and sound organizational judgment
• Strength in cross-functional leadership, including work with executive stakeholders on business cases, investment planning, customer requirements, and balancing innovation with operational stability