Engineering Manager, Dedicated Infrastructure - GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. We embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

An overview of this role

You'll lead GitLab's Dedicated Infrastructure team, combining hands-on technical leadership with team development. Working with the team's Product Manager, you'll balance delivery speed and quality, guide architecture decisions, and lead the team through incidents.

You'll demonstrate ideas through proofs of concept, give team members meaningful feedback, and use data to make prioritization and risk decisions.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the team's Product Manager to set clear priorities and deliver with quality and speed.
• Maintain at least 99.9% availability for Dedicated infrastructure, strengthen security, and automate operations to support more tenants at scale.
• Give your team clear direction and meaningful feedback, and build shared ownership of development and operations.
• Improve the platforms and tools your team owns so feature implementers can manage their services in production through self-service workflows.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop productive team members, supporting their growth and accountability.
• Lead by example with proofs of concept and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted approaches. Simplify processes and automate repetitive manual work.
• Model effective incident management, lead timely resolution and escalation, and document and teach best practices across GitLab.
• Use data to prioritize work, quantify impact, and manage risk and technical debt. Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders to support their decisions.

What you’ll bring

• A track record of building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to evaluate architecture and guide technical strategy.
• Experience with fleet management, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and automated provisioning at a scale of 20 or more clusters.
• Experience owning services with 99.99% availability service-level objectives (SLOs), and an understanding of the operational practices needed to sustain them.
• Experience using AI tools to improve team productivity, with lessons learned from both successes and missteps.
• Experience building and managing accountable, high-performing teams, including addressing underperformance and making difficult performance decisions when needed.
• The ability to lead complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated Technical Program Manager.
• Experience leading distributed, remote teams effectively.

About the team

We build and operate the large-scale distributed infrastructure for GitLab Dedicated, our hosted software as a service (SaaS) platform. Our work centers on availability, security, fleet management, and automated provisioning across tenants. We also build self-service platforms and tools that enable feature implementers to own their services in production.

At GitLab, our mission is simple: to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We collaborate asynchronously, with autonomy, accountability, and transparency guiding how we work.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.