Engineering Manager, Dedicated Integrations

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Technical Engineering Manager to lead the Dedicated Platform Integration team for the Dedicated platform hosted SaaS. You will drive the integration of third-party and modular features within the GitLab ecosystem, ensuring high availability and security while guiding a distributed, remote team.

The role emphasizes technical depth, operational excellence, and the smart use of AI to boost team productivity.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services.
• Experience driving operational excellence with high-availability SLOs (4 9s).
• Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity.
• History of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures.
• Ability to drive complex projects to completion without a dedicated TPM.
• Experience leading distributed and remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Enable execution with quality and speed in collaboration with the Product Manager.
• Maintain 3+ 9s availability of Dedicated infrastructure, with security and scalability.
• Provide direction, meaningful feedback and automate toil; enforce DevOps ownership.
• Improve owned artifacts toward self-service production for feature implementers.
• Recruit, onboard and develop excellent and productive team members.
• Be a role model: provide proofs of concept and simplify processes.
• Lead Incident Management, fast resolutions, escalations and codify best practices.
• Data-driven prioritization and risk/technical debt management; use AI to translate concepts.

Skills

Distributed systems

Remote leadership

Operational excellence

AI tooling

Incident management

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.We're looking for a technical engineering manager to lead a team building and operating large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong operational instincts and a passion for building high-performing teams.

Technical Engineering Manager

You will lead the Dedicated Platform Integration team, responsible for the integration of third-party and modular features in the GitLab ecosystem, for Dedicated platform hosted SaaS.

Key Responsibilities

• Enable effective executionwith Quality and Speed, in partnership with the team’s Product Manager
• Ensure 3+ 9s availability of Dedicated infrastructure, ensuring security and automating for maximum scalability and number of tenants.
• Provide clear direction, meaningful feedback and foster an environment where meaningless toil gets ruthlessly automated and Devops ownership is enforced.
• Continuously improved owned artifacts in a direction of optimizing platforms for self-service ownership of production for feature implementers.
• Recruitment, onboarding and development of excellent and productive team members.
• Be a role model for the team: provide Proof of concepts, agentic mindset and extreme simplification of processes and removal of human toil. Show and Tell, not only Tell.
• Role model Incident Management best-practices, lead in fast resolutions, escalations and train and codify best practices to the whole of GitLab
• Data driven approach to prioritization, impact quantification and management of risk and technical debt.Able to use AI to demonstrate concepts and translate technical complexity to drive stakeholder decisions.

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-nines (99.99%) SLOs and know what it takes to keep them there
• Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with real lessons learned from both wins and missteps
• A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary
• Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated TPM
• Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.