Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: 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. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

As the Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery, you’ll build and lead a high-performing, globally distributed team that makes it easy for customers to deploy, upgrade, and operate GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure. You’ll create an environment where team members can thrive, partner closely with a Product Manager to connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering, and own deployment tooling that supports everything from single-node virtual machines to large Kubernetes clusters. You’ll focus on reliability, upgrade velocity, operational simplicity, and zero-downtime capabilities across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed environments, while drawing on technologies such as Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and cloud-native deployment architectures. You’ll also collaborate across the Infrastructure Platforms department and participate in incident management to help ensure the availability of GitLab.com.

What you’ll do

Lead a globally distributed GitLab Delivery team, creating an environment where team members can thrive and consistently deliver results.
Hire, onboard, and develop team members who live GitLab’s values and contribute to a peak-performance organization.
Manage and improve agile, async workflows so the team can iteratively deliver high-quality deployment tooling and services.
Partner with Product Management and peers across Infrastructure Platforms and Engineering to align deployment tooling with business goals and customer needs.
Own the reliability, upgrade velocity, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.
Improve how customers deploy, upgrade, and operate GitLab, including deployment patterns, zero-downtime capabilities, observability, and overall upgrade experience.
Apply a strong technical background in Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration to guide engineering decisions and unblock the team.
Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation, collaborating with reliability engineers and development teams to help ensure availability targets for GitLab.com are met.

What you’ll bring

Experience leading deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams operating at scale.
Strong technical background with practical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
Solid understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, datab

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