Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades
Leads a globally distributed team responsible for deployment tooling, upgrades, reliability, and operational simplicity across GitLab deployment models. Requires platform or SRE leadership experience, strong Kubernetes and Helm expertise, and the ability to guide distributed teams through complex operational challenges.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead a globally distributed engineering team in an all-remote, asynchronous environment.
- Hire, onboard, and develop team members.
- Improve agile and asynchronous workflows for reliable iterative delivery.
- Partner with Product Management and Infrastructure Platforms engineering peers to align priorities with customer and business needs.
- Own deployment reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.
- Improve deployment patterns, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration.
- Guide technical decisions involving Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application delivery.
- Participate in incident management to help maintain GitLab.com availability.
Requirements
- Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams at meaningful scale.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrades.
- Experience with enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment.
- Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
- Experience building high-performing distributed teams in asynchronous environments.
- Effective cross-functional collaboration with Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success.
- Formal computer science education or equivalent practical experience.
- Interest in open source and developer tools.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Skills
Kubernetes, Kubernetes Operators, Helm, Cloud-Native Architecture, Database Lifecycle Management, Schema Migrations, Zero-Downtime Upgrades, Upgrade Orchestration, Observability, Incident Management
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