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Engineering Manager, Core DevOps

GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United States · Remote

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About GitLab

The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.

About the role

In this role, you'll build, manage, and support a globally distributed engineering team delivering high-quality, reliable platform capabilities and user experiences. You'll hire and onboard talent, guide technical delivery, shape team workflows, and align engineering execution with product management, design, and business goals. Your work will help engineers take responsibility for outcomes, grow continuously, and improve operational and delivery excellence in a remote, asynchronous environment.

What they're looking for

  • Build, manage, and mentor a globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can thrive and advance their careers
  • Hire, onboard, and develop engineers while maintaining high standards for quality, accountability, and psychological safety
  • Partner with product management, product design, and cross-functional engineering teams to align technical direction, shape roadmaps, and deliver against commitments
  • Guide engineers on system architecture, code quality, performance, security, and maintainability across frontend and backend disciplines
  • Manage and refine agile, remote, and asynchronous workflows, maintaining delivery cadence and addressing blockers, backlogs, or delayed execution early
  • Encourage and integrate AI capabilities and modern developer tooling into daily workflows to improve productivity, innovation, and efficiency
More about this role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

* Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the...

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