Engineering Manager, Continuous Delivery

What you'll do

• Build and lead a new globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and grow their careers.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers who embody GitLab's values and hold themselves to a high standard of quality and ownership.
• Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the roadmap, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver against product commitments.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence across reliability, performance, security, and maintainability, while keeping the pace expected in a fast-moving product area.
• Champion AI as a core part of how the team works, encouraging engineers to incorporate AI tools into their daily workflows to drive efficiency and innovation.
• Hold regular 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development.
• Drive a healthy delivery cadence by maintaining visibility into milestone progress, identifying blockers early, and proactively addressing patterns before they require escalation.
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure availability targets for GitLab.com are met.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical credibility to provide architectural guidance and participate meaningfully in technical discussions.
• Strong background in distributed systems and durable workflow execution, including state persistence and replay patterns.
• Experience building or leading teams working on release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery at scale.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and GitOps workflows, including progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
• Experience with policy-based governance and event-driven architectures in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.
• Proven ability to build and lead teams in early-stage contexts, including defining team processes, hiring foundational members, and establishing a strong team culture.
• Strong cross-functional alignment and consensus-building skills, with the ability to drive decisions and execution even in the face of ambiguity or competing priorities.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a bias toward async, handbook-first practices and transparency.
• Experience in remote-first, globally distributed organizations and comfort operating in environments with high autonomy and high accountability.
• Track record of fostering inclusive team cultures where engineers feel psychologically safe to contribute, take calculated risks, and hold each other to high standards.
• Strong alignment with GitLab's values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, Transparency) with demonstrated examples from previous roles.