A remote Engineering Leadership role at GitLab.
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Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
Be responsible for Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by addressing risks early.
Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning as the Add-On scales.
Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.
What you’ll bring
Over 3 years of experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.
Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies.
Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.
Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
GitLab
YC W15Engineering Leadership
147 open roles on Sydicom
GitLab is the first single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps, unlocking organizations from the constraints of today’s toolchain. GitLab provides unmatched visibility, radical new levels of efficiency and comprehensive governance to significantly compress the time between planning a change and monitoring its effect. This makes the software lifecycle 200% faster, radically improving the speed of business. GitLab and Concurrent DevOps collapses cycle times by driving higher efficiency across all stages of the software development lifecycle. For the first time, Product, Development, QA, Security, and Operations teams can work concurrently in a single application. There’s no need to integrate and synchronize tools, or waste time waiting for handoffs. Everyone contributes to a single conversation, instead of managing multiple threads across disparate tools. And only GitLab gives teams complete visibility across the lifecycle with a single, trusted source of data to simplify troubleshooting and drive accountability. All activity is governed by consistent controls, making security and compliance first-class citizens instead of an afterthought. Built on Open Source, GitLab leverages the community contributions of thousands of developers and millions of users to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. More than 100,000 organizations from startups to global enterprise organizations, including Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, NASDAQ, Dish Network and Comcast trust GitLab to deliver great software at new speeds.
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