• 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.
• Improve deployment patterns, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration for customers running GitLab on their own infrastructure.
• Apply technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application delivery to guide choices and unblock the team.
• Participate in incident management and collaborate with reliability and development teams to help support the availability of GitLab.com.

What you’ll bring

• 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 building high-performing, distributed teams and supporting team members in an asynchronous, all-remote environment.
• Effective collaboration skills across functions such as Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success to improve customer outcomes.
• Openness to diverse paths into the role, including transferable skills, formal computer science education, or equivalent practical experience, along with interest in open source and developer tools.