Engineering Manager, Security Platform: Authentication

GitLab Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Authentication team in Bengaluru. You will lead a group of engineers responsible for how users, applications, tokens, and AI agents sign in to GitLab.

You’ll partner with Staff Engineers and Product Managers to translate architecture into shippable increments, driving multi-quarter programs with fixed deadlines. You will hire and grow a capable team, plan milestones, and manage risks to keep delivery on track while protecting the team’s focus and

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, and grow a team of senior and intermediate engineers in Bangalore, working with talent acquisition during a high-volume hiring period.
• Own delivery for your team's part of the authentication roadmap: plan in milestones, track risks early, and communicate clearly when a date is at risk and what would change it.
• Work with your Staff Engineer and Product Manager to turn architecture decisions into shippable, feature-flagged increments.
• Protect your team's focus.

Job description

Engineering Manager, Security Platform: Authentication

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 valuesand 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 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As an Engineering Manager on GitLab's Authentication team, you'll build and lead a team of engineers in Bangalore who own how users, applications, tokens, and artificial intelligence (AI) agents sign in to GitLab.At GitLab, we see our team as our product. You'll need to be technically credible in authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Your main focus will be hiring well, growing your engineers, and helping the team deliver on commitments that other parts of GitLab depend on.You'll guide your team's work on OAuth across Cells, global identities, token consolidation, and moving authentication out of the Ruby on Rails monolith onto GATE, GitLab's new authentication and authorization platform. You'll manage these multi-quarter programs with fixed deadlines and many dependent teams.

What you'll do

• Hire, onboard, and grow a team of senior and intermediate engineers in Bangalore, working with talent acquisition during a high-volume hiring period.
• Own delivery for your team's part of the authentication roadmap: plan in milestones, track risks early, and communicate clearly when a date is at risk and what would change it.
• Work with your Staff Engineer and Product Manager to turn architecture decisions into shippable, feature-flagged increments.
• Protect your team's focus.