About the job
At GitLab, we are pioneering the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, empowering organizations to enhance developer productivity, streamline operational efficiency, mitigate security and compliance risks, and expedite digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100 entrusting us, GitLab is committed to delivering software that is better, more secure, and faster.
Our principles, which are deeply embedded in our products, extend to our team dynamics: we leverage AI as a fundamental productivity enhancer, with every team member encouraged to integrate AI into their daily tasks to foster efficiency, spur innovation, and create significant impact. At GitLab, careers flourish, innovation thrives, and every voice is acknowledged. Our high-performance culture, sustained by our values and ongoing knowledge exchange, enables team members to realize their full potential while collaborating with industry pioneers to tackle complex challenges. Join us in co-creating the future as we develop technology that revolutionizes software development.
Role Overview
As the Engineering Manager for GitLab Continuous Delivery (CD), you will spearhead the formation and leadership of a new, globally distributed team, placing you at the forefront of GitLab’s next-generation Continuous Deployment capabilities. In this greenfield opportunity, you will recruit foundational engineers, cultivate the team's culture and operational practices, and oversee the delivery of a premier CD product within GitLab’s DevSecOps platform.
Your team will engineer a CD engine that transcends mere script execution, incorporating true reconciliation, live state awareness, resilient orchestration, and AI-driven governance into GitLab’s platform. The ambition is to roll out features that empower customers to deploy software reliably, securely, and confidently. This role resides at the nexus of GitLab's core platform and its AI strategy, marking it as a high-impact, dynamic segment of the product.
You will collaborate closely with Product Management, cross-functional engineering teams, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure that technical decisions align with customer requirements and business objectives, while fostering a team culture rooted in GitLab's core values.

