Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain
Leads and develops a backend engineering team delivering GitLab’s Software Supply Chain Security Add-On, including dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing. Requires 3+ years guiding backend product engineering teams and experience with roadmap delivery, hiring, and security or platform environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
- Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations.
- Improve engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and addressing risks early.
- Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
- Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning.
- Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and ensure strong cross-functional communication.
Requirements
- More than 3 years of experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.
- Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments.
- Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
- Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and cross-team dependencies.
- Strong written communication in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, compliance-focused product areas, or related domains.
- Working knowledge of frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
- Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Skills
Backend Engineering, Software Supply Chain Security, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Package Registries, CI/CD, Pipeline Security, Artifact Signing, Slsa, Sigstore, Artifact Management, Test Coverage
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