Engineering Manager, Build Platform & Delivery

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 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