Director of Engineering, Analytics Platform & Products

4 hours, 17 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Software Development
GitLab

GitLab

GitLab: The comprehensive DevOps platform revolutionizing software development with automation, AI workflows, and essential tools for efficient collaboration.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014

Description

  • Lead the analytics engineering organization with accountability for strategy, architecture, execution, and team health.
  • Guide Engineering Managers and partner with Principal Engineers on technical direction and architectural decisions.
  • Define the roadmap for analytics capabilities across instrumentation, data foundations, and customer-facing data products.
  • Oversee end-to-end data pipelines, including instrumentation, ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and product integration.
  • Drive platform and architecture decisions that support SaaS, self-managed, and regulated or isolated deployment environments.
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, Infrastructure, Data, and AI leaders to align roadmap, architecture, and execution.
  • Build a high-performing engineering organization with clear ownership, strong operational discipline, and consistent technical standards.
  • Champion asynchronous ways of working and AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Shape how GitLab and its customers measure adoption, engineering health, and business impact across multiple deployment models.
  • Strengthen the architecture and scale the organization as new analytics capabilities are added.

Requirements

  • Experience leading multiple engineering teams through managers in a Director-level or comparable engineering leadership role.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform engineering.
  • Deep understanding of end-to-end data pipelines, analytics platforms, and the tradeoffs involved in building them.
  • Ability to engage deeply in architecture, system design, and technical discussions with senior and principal engineers.
  • Experience delivering platforms across SaaS, self-managed, and regulated or isolated environments.
  • Commitment to engineering practices such as test-driven development, continuous delivery, and modular architecture.
  • Strong cross-functional communication and leadership skills in a distributed, remote-first environment.
  • Interest in transferable experience from adjacent areas such as product analytics, instrumentation, observability, or privacy-conscious analytics systems.
  • Ability to work in a remote role, with some location-based eligibility requirements depending on the position.
  • AI fluency or willingness to incorporate AI into daily workflows as part of GitLab’s working style.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $203,200 to $345,600 USD for the listed level in the United States.
  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental Leave.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.

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