Engineering Manager, Multi-Cloud Cell Infrastructure

GitLab; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab in Amsterdam is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Cell Infrastructure, shaping the platform that provisions, places, and operates cells across cloud environments. You'll drive 0 to 1 initiatives, define architecture, grow the team, and establish an operational model for reliability, cost visibility, and developer enablement.

You'll partner with platform, CI/CD, and AI-related areas to support the Duo Agent Platform and cross-cloud strategy, reporting to the VP Engineering, Platform

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
• Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including on-call and incident management.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals and multi-cloud tradeoffs.
• Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment.
• Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and managers.
• Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems that support GitLab's cell-based architecture.
• Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure, spanning architecture, delivery, and production operations.
• Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams to make unit economics part of the system design.
• Own the reliability model for cell infrastructure, including on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem follow-through.
• Partner with adjacent teams such as Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD to support their scaling and deployment needs.
• Define and evolve architectural decisions for cross-cloud routing, data residency, and infrastructure portability.
• Develop platform capabilities and developer tooling that let teams deploy on top of cell infrastructure without needing to understand its internal complexity.
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning with senior engineering stakeholders on GitLab's broader cells and multi-cloud strategy.

Skills

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Multi-cloud

FinOps awareness

Job description

GitLab in Amsterdam is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Cell Infrastructure, shaping the platform that provisions, places, and operates cells across cloud environments. You'll drive 0 to 1 initiatives, define architecture, grow the team, and establish an operational model for reliability, cost visibility, and developer enablement.

You'll partner with platform, CI/CD, and AI-related areas to support the Duo Agent Platform and cross-cloud strategy, reporting to the VP Engineering, Platform