Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain
GitLab · Posted Oct 5
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, and the SSCS Add-On team is a product engineering team within GitLab's Software Supply Chain Security stage that delivers security features for customers in regulated environments. The team builds the SSCS Add-On SKU, covering capabilities such as Dependency Firewall, Build Provenance, Malicious Packages detection, and Artifact Signing, working asynchronously as a distributed team. This founding Engineering Manager role guides the backend engineering team, owns predictable delivery of general availability milestones, and partners with the Staff Backend Engineer, Product Manager, and SSCS stage leadership on roadmap, hiring, and team health.
What you will do
- 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.
- Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
- Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by 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 as the Add-On scales.
- Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Over 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, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
- 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 managing cross-team dependencies.
- Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
- Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
- Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
Benefits and support
- 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
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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