Senior Engineering Manager, DevEx

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. 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.

An overview of this role: As a Senior Engineering Manager in Delivery Enablement, you’ll help shape the platform foundations we use to make software delivery at GitLab more consistent, reliable, and easier to scale. You’ll oversee approximately four to five engineering teams through the engineering managers who lead them, with work spanning shared development tooling, developer environments, language SDKs, API lifecycle management, and observability. This role is unique because you’ll help define a Kubernetes‑first platform vision that supports GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self‑managed deployments, including environments that run on premises. In your first year, you’ll create clearer technical direction, strengthen execution across teams, and align work to unified platform standards. You’ll report to the Director of Delivery Enablement. You’ll succeed by combining people management with technical depth: engaging in details, making sound calls amid change, and moving teams forward with transparency and accountability. This role is ideal if you have experience in platform engineering, grasp the complexities of operating across both cloud and on‑prem environments, and want to work in a space where Kubernetes, Helm, AI‑enabled workflows, and developer productivity intersect.

The Work Spans Areas Such As:

• Shared development tooling, including project templates and reusable CI pipeline components
• A developer environment that gives engineers a consistent path from local workstations and CI through to GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self‑Managed
• Language SDKs that integrate cleanly with platform tooling so product teams can focus on business logic instead of integration plumbing
• API lifecycle conventions that give teams a common approach to versioning and evolving service interfaces
• Observability tooling that turns raw signals into SLOs and SLIs for production services

What you’ll do:

• Lead engineering teams working on developer tooling and platform capabilities that support faster, more consistent software delivery across GitLab, measured through improvements in build times, observability, and delivery consistency.
• Drive a Kubernetes‑first platform vision that supports both cloud and self‑managed environments, including the trade‑offs needed for on‑prem delivery.
• Guide technical and organizational decisions across areas such as developer environments, packaging, local and hosted testing workflows, and integration with broader platform efforts.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leaders, staff engineers, and adjacent teams to ensure DevEx investments connect cleanly with platform architecture and operational needs.
• Coach and develop the engineering managers reporting to you, partnering with them on team health, performance, prioritization, and hiring, including addressing performance concerns and shaping teams for future needs.
• Develop clear direction from high‑level strategy, turning broad platform goals into actionable roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics that teams can execute with ownership.
• Support the adoption of AI‑assisted development practices by helping teams use new tools thoughtfully while maintaining engineering quality.
• Improve execution by creating clarity, encouraging strong technical discussion, and helping teams make decisions and keep moving when requirements evolve, with success measured by delivery predictability and cycle time improvements.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience managing engineering managers and coaching them on execution, team health, hiring, and performance.
• Experience leading distributed engineering teams through change and ambiguity while building clarity, accountability, and momentum.
• Strong technical grounding in Kubernetes platforms, including familiarity with concepts and interfaces such as Services, container network interface, and API gateways.
• Working knowledge of Helm and containerized delivery models, especially where platform choices affect both developer experience and production outcomes.
• Experience with self‑managed, on‑prem, or bare metal environments (OpenShift, OpenStack, Proxmox, etc.), and an understanding of how they differ from cloud‑first assumptions.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade‑offs and contribute informed judgment on platform architecture and cross‑team system integration.
• Hands‑on experience with CLI‑based AI coding tools, with judgment to help teams adopt them thoughtfully while maintaining engineering standards.
• Relevant background in platform engineering, infrastructure, site reliability engineering, or developer productivity, including designing team structures and organizational approaches.

About The Team: The Delivery Enablement team owns key parts of GitLab’s internal developer experience, helping engineers start projects, build business logic, package services consistently, and improve day‑to‑day workflows. We work asynchronously across regions and partner closely with platform and engineering leadership to connect individual tools and workflows into a broader system. We’re focused on an important transition: reducing reliance on older approaches, defining clearer platform standards, and building foundations that better support how GitLab develops and ships software.

United States Salary Range: $168,000—$285,600 USD

How GitLab Supports Full‑Time Employees:

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well‑being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• Home Office Support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location‑based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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