Overview
As Technical Engineering Manager, you will lead the Dedicated Platform Integration team to build and operate large-scale distributed systems within the GitLab ecosystem. You will drive reliability, security, and self-service production capabilities for feature implementers, while growing a high-performing, distributed team. You’ll leverage AI to boost productivity and translate technical concepts for stakeholders. This role combines technical depth with people leadership in a remote, merit-based culture.
Pay / Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Responsibilities
- Guide execution with quality and speed in collaboration with Product Management
- Maintain 99.99% availability for Dedicated infrastructure with automation for scalability and multi-tenant support
- Provide clear direction, feedback, and automate toil while enforcing DevOps ownership
- Improve owned artifacts toward self-service production for feature implementers
- Recruit, onboard, and develop high-performing team members
- Model best practices in incident management, drive fast resolutions, and codify learnings for GitLab
- Adopt data-driven prioritization, quantify impact, and manage risk and technical debt, including AI-driven concept demonstrations for stakeholders
Key requirements
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services
- Experience delivering services with four-nines (99.99%) SLOs
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity
- History of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures
- Ability to drive complex projects to completion without a dedicated TPM
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams
- strong leadership and mentoring
- data-driven decision making
- effective communication
- distributed systems architecture
- reliability engineering and SLO management
- incident management best practices
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