Senior Engineering Manager - Continuous Deployment
GitLab · Posted Sep 15
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, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. As a Senior Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment, you'll build and manage a globally distributed team focused on Continuous Deployment capabilities within GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform, hiring engineers, shaping how the team works, and guiding delivery of a reliable product experience for customers. Your team will build a Continuous Deployment engine that reconciles live state, coordinates durable workflows, and supports AI-native governance, helping customers deploy software with greater reliability, safety, and assurance.
What you will do
- Build and manage a globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and grow their careers.
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, setting clear expectations for quality and accountability.
- Partner with product management and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the roadmap, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver against product commitments.
- Set expectations for reliable, secure, maintainable, and performant delivery, and help the team meet them.
- Encourage the use of artificial intelligence as a core part of how the team works, with engineers using artificial intelligence tools in their daily workflows to improve efficiency and innovation.
- Hold regular 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development.
- Track milestone progress, identify blockers early, and address patterns before they require escalation.
- Participate in the incident management on-call rotation to help maintain availability targets for GitLab.com.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience managing engineering team, including advising on architecture and contributing to technical discussions.
- Experience with distributed systems and durable workflow execution, including state persistence and replay patterns.
- Experience building or managing teams working on release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery at scale.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and GitOps workflows, including progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
- Experience with policy-based governance and event-driven architectures in reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.
- Experience building and managing teams in early-stage contexts, including defining processes, hiring foundational team members, and establishing how the team works.
- Experience working across functions, exercising judgment, and moving work forward in ambiguous or fast-changing situations.
- Experience communicating clearly in writing and conversation while working effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.
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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