Engineering Manager, Build
Leads GitLab’s Build team, owning the strategy, delivery, security, and operational excellence of systems that produce distributable software artifacts. The role requires distributed-systems expertise, experience operating highly available services, and a track record managing high-performing remote engineering teams.
About the job
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.
Requirements
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with technical depth in architecture and technical strategy.
- Experience driving operational excellence and owning services with four-nines (99.99%) SLOs.
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to improve team productivity.
- History of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures.
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without a dedicated TPM.
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively.
Compensation and Benefits
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team member resource groups.
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and development fund.
- Parental leave.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Software Architecture, Service-Level Objectives, Artificial Intelligence, Build Systems, Dependency Management, Software Supply Chain Security, Software Bill Of Materials, Container Images, Continuous Integration, Observability, Gitlab Omnibus, Cloud Native Gitlab
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