Engineering Manager, Build

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Lead the build platform foundations enabling faster, more self-service delivery. You will drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model, oversee dependency management, SBOMs, and build isolation, and partner with Delivery and adjacent teams to

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
• Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-ni

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.

Job description

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.Summary: Lead the Build team within GitLab Delivery, accountable for the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of the systems that turn GitLab source code into secure, verified, and distributable artifacts for Self-Managed and other delivery targets. The role owns the build platform foundations that make component delivery faster, more consistent, and more self-service for development teams, while ensuring artifacts are reliable for customers to install and operate.

Key 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.

What you'll bring:

• Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
• Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-ni