Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release

Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release

Remote, EMEA

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 the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.

An overview of this role

As Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release, your primary responsibility is to build a world-class team and put them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive, and the team produces results.

You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable solution for releasing software to our customers. Your team, consisting of both Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, will be globally distributed, and you will work in an agile and synchronized way to improve the way we release GitLab.

What you'll do

• Hire an incredible team that lives our values
• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces results
• Guide Release Orchestration and Release Management
• Work across sections within Infrastructure and Engineering
• Manage the security, performance, and scalability of the release process
• Improve the quality, security, and performance of the product
• Work on small changes outside of the critical path
• Experience leading Software Delivery, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
• Excellent technical background
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate them to understandable language for the business
• Demonstrated teamwork in a peak-performance organization
• Experience running a consumer-scale platform
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience or startup experience
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about open source and developer tools

About the team

The GitLab Delivery - Release enables GitLab Engineering to deliver features in a safe, scalable, and efficient fashion to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed customers. The team ensures that GitLab’s monthly, and patch releases are deployed to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and publicly released in a timely fashion to self-managed customers.

The team uses Engineering Principles to guide the decisions it makes for its services. We aim to contribute the lessons we learn by delivering GitLab into the GitLab application and GitLab.com to improve the overall customer experience within GitLab in all the offerings. We collaborate closely with all the other Infrastructure teams, Support teams, and Customer Success Management teams to provide the best customer experience.

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

Remote-Global

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