Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

3 hours, 17 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
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

  • Guide a globally distributed engineering team in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
  • Hire, onboard, and develop team members aligned with GitLab’s values.
  • Manage and improve agile, asynchronous workflows to deliver deployment tooling and services iteratively and reliably.
  • Partner with Product Management and Infrastructure Platforms peers to align priorities with customer needs and business goals.
  • Own the reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed environments.
  • Improve deployment patterns, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration for customers running GitLab on their own infrastructure.
  • Apply technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application delivery to unblock the team.
  • Participate in incident management and support the availability of GitLab.com.
  • Turn lessons from operating GitLab at scale into product and tooling improvements across deployment models.

Requirements

  • Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams at meaningful scale.
  • Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
  • Understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment.
  • Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and explain tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience building high-performing, distributed teams in an asynchronous, all-remote environment.
  • Effective collaboration skills across Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success teams.
  • Open to transferable experience, formal computer science education, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Interest in open source and developer tools.

Benefits

  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Home office support.
  • Remote roles with global hiring eligibility, subject to location-based requirements for some positions.

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