Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering

3 weeks, 4 days 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

  • Define the engineering strategy for the functional area and align roadmap, investment, and planning with company direction.
  • Lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization across multiple product domains.
  • Support Directors, Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, and their teams.
  • Drive operational excellence through engineering metrics, incident management, reliability, quality, and developer productivity practices.
  • Champion AI-native engineering practices across workflows, platforms, and products.
  • Partner with Product Management to create a high-velocity operating model between engineering and product.
  • Collaborate with Finance and executive peers on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment tradeoffs.
  • Work with Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and security leaders on enterprise needs and strategic initiatives.
  • Represent the engineering organization in executive discussions, board-level conversations, and external forums.
  • Strengthen the management team, improve operational maturity, and create conditions for high-quality execution in an all-remote, handbook-first environment.

Requirements

  • Experience leading large engineering organizations across multiple product areas in a distributed environment, including leadership through Directors and Senior Managers.
  • Strong technical credibility with the ability to discuss architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and system design tradeoffs with senior leaders and individual contributors.
  • Background building scalable frontend platforms or large-scale user-facing systems, along with backend or infrastructure experience.
  • Direct experience modernizing a monolithic application into modular, independently deployable architecture in production, including migration sequencing and runtime composition decisions.
  • Experience developing or scaling a design system with attention to versioning, testing, and documentation.
  • Familiarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows, including understanding AI features versus AI-native architecture.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with strong written communication and organizational judgment.
  • Strength in cross-functional leadership, including work with executive stakeholders on business cases, investment planning, customer requirements, and balancing innovation with operational stability.
  • Candidates with varying levels of experience are encouraged to apply if they have relevant transferable skills.
  • All roles are remote, though some may have specific location-based eligibility requirements.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Home office support.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.

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