Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

GitLab
India
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Transportation & Fleet OperationsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Engineering Manager leading a globally distributed team focused on deployment tooling, platform engineering, and site reliability at scale. You’ll guide Kubernetes Operators, Helm-based stateful deployments, and cloud-native architectures while driving reliability, upgrade velocity, and zero-downtime delivery across GitLab’s deployment models, partnering with Product Management and Infrastructure Platforms to align customer needs with engineering choices.

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GitLab
5 months ago

Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

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Job Summary

Engineering Manager leading a globally distributed team focused on deployment tooling, platform engineering, and site reliability at scale. You’ll guide Kubernetes Operators, Helm-based stateful deployments, and cloud-native architectures while driving reliability, upgrade velocity, and zero-downtime delivery across GitLab’s deployment models, partnering with Product Management and Infrastructure Platforms to align customer needs with engineering choices.
Location: India
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Transportation & Fleet Operations
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Guide a globally distributed engineering team and create an environment where team members can do strong work and grow in an all-remote, asynchronous setting.
  • •Hire, onboard, and develop team members who align with GitLab’s values and contribute to an outcome-focused engineering organization.
  • •Manage and improve agile, asynchronous workflows so the team can deliver deployment tooling and services iteratively and reliably.
  • •Partner with Product Management and engineering peers across Infrastructure Platforms to align team priorities with customer needs and business goals.
  • •Own the reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams that operate at meaningful scale.
  • •Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
  • •Understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
  • •Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment.
  • •Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and explain tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience:Open sourceDevopsSaaS
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KubernetesKubernetes OperatorsHelmCloud-nativeStateful deploymentsUpgrade orchestrationGitLab deployments

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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