Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Operate - Gitlab - Remote - Global

As the Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Operate, you’ll guide a globally distributed team focused on making it easier for customers to deploy, upgrade, and run GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure. You’ll help shape the systems and tooling that support environments ranging from single-node virtual machines to large Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on reliability, operational simplicity, upgrade velocity, and zero-downtime capabilities across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed deployments. In this role, you’ll partner closely with a Product Manager and work across Infrastructure Platforms to connect customer needs and business goals with practical engineering choices. This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who wants to support a high-performing team while influencing how GitLab is delivered at scale. In your first year, you’ll help the team deliver better deployment and upgrade experiences, guide technical direction in areas like Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and cloud-native deployment architectures, and contribute to incident management to help support the availability of GitLab.com. Guide a globally distributed engineering team and create an environment where team members can do strong work and grow in an all-remote, asynchronous setting. Hire onboard, and develop team members who align with GitLab’s values and contribute to an outcome-focused engineering organization. Manage and improve agile, asynchronous workflows so the team can deliver deployment tooling and services iteratively and reliably. Partner with Product Management and engineering peers across Infrastructure Platforms to align team priorities with customer needs and business goals. Own the reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated. 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 guide choices and unblock the team. Participate in incident management and collaborate with reliability and development teams to help support the availability of GitLab.com.