Engineering Manager – Gitlab Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Lead a geographically diverse engineering team, fostering an environment that empowers team members to excel and develop in a fully remote, asynchronous context.

• Recruit, onboard, and nurture team members who resonate with GitLab’s principles and enhance an outcome-driven engineering organization.

• Oversee and refine agile, asynchronous processes to enable the team to deliver deployment tools and services in a reliable and iterative manner.

• Collaborate with Product Management and engineering colleagues across Infrastructure Platforms to ensure team objectives align with customer requirements and business objectives.

• Take ownership of the reliability, upgrade experience, and operational ease of GitLab deployments spanning self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.

• Enhance deployment methodologies, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration for customers utilizing GitLab on their own infrastructure.

• Utilize technical expertise in areas like Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application deployment to guide decisions and help the team overcome obstacles.

• Engage in incident management and work alongside reliability and development teams to support the availability of GitLab.com.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading deployment tools, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams that operate at significant scale.

• Strong technical expertise in Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration strategies.

• Knowledge of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and strategies for zero-downtime upgrades.

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, preferably in a product-oriented software setting.

• Ability to analyze complex deployment and operational challenges and articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proven track record in building high-performing, distributed teams and assisting team members in an asynchronous, fully remote setup.

• Strong collaboration skills across various functions such as Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success to enhance customer outcomes.

• Willingness to consider diverse backgrounds for the role, including transferable skills, formal computer science education, or equivalent hands-on experience, along with a passion for open source and developer tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental leave.

• Home office support.