Remote Engineering Manager - AI Agent Platform

JobCubby; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits to support your health, Fin. 

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Execution group to lead and scale multiple engineering teams focused on AI agents and sandboxing at the core of our platform. You will guide staff engineers, drive design discussions, and partner with product and UX to deliver measurable milestones.

You will manage a distributed team, hire and coach engineers, and shape the technical direction for running agents safely and effectively at scale in a fast-changing AI landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, distributed engineering teams.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problems into shipped milestones.
• Fluency with modern AI coding tools and agent harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering, with each team anchored by a staff engineer.
• Grow the group by hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers at every level.
• Partner with product and UX to turn ambiguous problems into shipped milestones and make prioritization tradeoffs explicit.
• Contribute substantively to technical design for running agents safely and effectively at scale.
• Establish practical standards for the group's use of AI tools, including tool selection and configuration.
• Coach engineers through ambiguity in a fast-changing technical space.
• Represent the group across GitLab's AI organization and with the teams that depend on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

Skills

Distributed eng teams

AI tooling fluency

Coaching engineers

Software engineering

Technical judgment

Leadership

Tools

Python

Ruby

Go

TypeScript

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Agent Execution group to lead and scale multiple engineering teams focused on AI agents and sandboxing at the core of our platform. You will guide staff engineers, drive design discussions, and partner with product and UX to deliver measurable milestones.

You will manage a distributed team, hire and coach engineers, and shape the technical direction for running agents safely and effectively at scale in a fast-changing AI landscape.