Senior Director, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 279,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Director of Dedicated Infrastructure Engineering & Platforms to lead the enterprise-focused SaaS infrastructure for GitLab Dedicated, ensuring security, compliance, and scale for government and public sector customers. You will guide architecture, migrations, and operational excellence in a high-impact, distributed team.

You will shape strategy for single-tenant platforms, drive investments in resilience, and deliver capabilities that enable faster onboarding, secure

Qualifications

• Led engineering organizations for large-scale SaaS infrastructure.
• Proven track record of reliability, performance, and cost improvements.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native and modular services across clouds.
• Experience delivering compliant enterprise-grade SaaS offerings (FedRAMP/GovCloud).
• Experience driving AI-enabled improvements in engineering workflows.
• Ability to translate financial targets into engineering plans and headcount.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, aligning with cellular architecture.
• Collaborate with Product and Exec leadership to hit growth targets and improve onboarding.
• Lead engineering teams across deployment, resilience, incident response, and migrations.
• Deliver GovTech readiness: AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP, air-gapped isolation, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive self-service tooling and guided workflows for enterprise migrations.
• Hire and scale managers, fostering AI-enabled improvements across distributed teams.
• Align architecture and investments with customer commitments and long-term strategy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

SaaS infrastructure

Cloud-native architectures

Infrastructure as Code

FedRAMP & GovCloud

AI-enabled workflows

Strategic planning

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.

An overview of this role

As the Director of Dedicated Infrastructure Engineering & Platforms, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, GitLab's premium single-tenant SaaS offering for enterprise customers in regulated industries, and public sector.

You will lead a high-performing organization of managers and engineers who own the entire lifecycle of dedicated and cellular platforms, from orchestration, integrations, resilience, and incident response to switchboard APIs, public sector compliance, and enterprise customer migrations. Your mission is to scale GitLab Dedicated from its current trajectory toward an aggressive growth target, ensuring enterprise customers experience full platform capabilities with dedicated infrastructure, compliance certifications, and enterprise-grade SLAs in an isolated environment.

As a high-impact executive leader, you will define the strategy for single-tenant and public sector SaaS platforms, drive critical infrastructure investments, ensure FedRAMP/compliance operational readiness, and build the switchboard and migration capabilities that allow enterprise customers to seamlessly transition to and scale on Dedicated. You will succeed by cultivating a culture of operational excellence, closing key business and roadmap gaps, and leading distributed engineering teams to deliver high-availability, highly secure platform experiences.

What you'll do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, and ensure the platform scales with customer growth and converges with GitLab's cellular architecture.
• Partner with Product and executive leadership to deliver on growth targets, with a focus on platform reliability, faster customer onboarding, infrastructure cost efficiency, and self-service administration.
• Lead the engineering teams that build and run the platform: tenant orchestration and integrations, resilience and incident response, the Switchboard control plane, public sector platforms and compliance, and enterprise migrations and import tooling. Uphold enterprise-grade SLAs across every tenant.
• Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government: AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations and audit readiness, air-gapped isolation, and public sector feature delivery.
• Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable, repeatable, and low-disruption through self-service tooling and guided workflows.
• Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams, and bring practical AI-enabled workflows into how the organization works.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Customer Support to keep customer commitments, architecture, and investments aligned.

What you'll bring

• You have led engineering organizations that run enterprise single or multi tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
• You have measurably improved production reliability, reduced toil, or lowered infrastructure cost on a platform you owned.
• You have deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services that deploy and scale independently across cloud environments.
• You have delivered and operated enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
• You have led organizational changes, including adopting AI enabled workflows that raise engineering system efficiencies.
• You translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps.
• You lead with ownership, speed with quality, and a focus on customer outcomes.

About the team

The Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms organization builds and runs GitLab Dedicated, our single-tenant enterprise SaaS offering, for GitLab's most strategic enterprise and public sector accounts. It is organized into five focus areas:

• Platform Orchestration & Integrations: orchestration, deployment, and environment automation for Dedicated tenants and cellular environments, plus integrations with external products.
• Core Features, Resilience & Response: compliance and operations driven features, disaster recovery, automated failover, rate limiting, and incident response automation.
• Switchboard & Control Plane: the APIs, tenant change automation, and operator and customer interfaces that make Dedicated self-service.
• Public Sector Platforms & Compliance: AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP compliance operations, air-gapped isolation, and Geo replication for GitLab Dedicated for Government.
• Enterprise Migrations & Import Tooling: customer migration programs and playbooks, Geo-based migration tooling, Direct Transfer, and self-service guided import workflows.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of theUnited States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US.Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data,and geographic location.The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

United States Salary Range

$279,000 — $349,000 USD

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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