Engineering Manager, Build Platform & Delivery

Jackalope Digital LLC; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Flexible Paid Time Off

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a strategic leader to head the Build team within GitLab Delivery. You will own the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of systems turning source code into secure, verifiable artifacts for Self-Managed and other targets.

You will drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model, manage dependencies, ensure supply chain security, and enable self-service with templates and docs. You will collaborate across teams to simplify onboarding, improve build quality, and establish

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning large-scale distributed services.
• Track record of driving operational excellence and high-availability services.
• Experience leading distributed/remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Build team roadmap across UBT, TUBE, and the broader build platform.
• Own delivery of GitLab distributable artifacts, including packages, container images, and cloud marketplace images.
• Drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model across Omnibus, CNG, and future delivery targets.
• Lead centralized dependency management and coordinated dependency updates across components.
• Ensure supply chain security through SBOMs, provenance, vetted dependencies, and compliant build isolation.
• Create self-service onboarding paths with standard CI templates, documentation, and paved paths.
• Improve build quality and consistency through unified build environments and validation.
• Establish observability, dashboards, and metrics for build pipelines and platform impact.
• Partner across Delivery and adjacent teams to unblock onboarding and reduce coordination overhead.

Skills

Distributed services

Technical strategy

AI tooling

Remote leadership

CI pipelines

Team development

Job description

GitLab is seeking a strategic leader to head the Build team within GitLab Delivery. You will own the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of systems turning source code into secure, verifiable artifacts for Self-Managed and other targets.

You will drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model, manage dependencies, ensure supply chain security, and enable self-service with templates and docs. You will collaborate across teams to simplify onboarding, improve build quality, and establish