Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release

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An overview of this role

As Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release, your primary responsibility is to build a world-class team and put them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive, and the team produces results.

You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals, and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable solution for releasing software to our customers. Your team, consisting of both Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, will be globally distributed, and you will work in an agile and sync way to improve the way we release GitLab. The team consists of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, who must efficiently coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.

What you'll do

• Hire an incredible team that lives our values
• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces results
• Guide Release Orchestration and Release Management
• Manage agile projects
• Work across sections within Infrastructure and Engineering
• Manage the security, performance and scalability of the release process
• Improve the quality, security and performance of the product
• Work on small changes outside of the critical path
• Participate in either the Release Manager rotation when needed or the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

What you'll bring

• Experience leading Software Delivery, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
• Excellent technical background
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate them to understandable language for the business
• Demonstrated teamwork in a peak-performance organization
• Experience running a consumer-scale platform
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience or startup experience
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about open source and developer tools
• Exquisite communication skills
• Management at GitLab
• Experience in managing a remote team

About the team
The GitLab Delivery - Release enables GitLab Engineering to deliver features in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated and self-managed customers. The team ensures that GitLab’s monthly, and patch releases are deployed to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and publicly released in a timely fashion to self-managed customers.

The team uses Engineering Principles to guide the decisions it makes for its services. We aim to contribute the lessons we learn by delivering GitLab into the GitLab application and GitLab.com to improve the overall customer experience within GitLab in all the offerings. We collaborate closely with all the other Infrastructure teams, Support teams, and Customer Success Management teams to provide the best customer experience.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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