Software Engineering Manager, Cells Infrastructure

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

As an Engineering Manager, you see your team as your most valuable product. Your primary focus is on the people you lead—guiding them, nurturing their growth, and ensuring they have everything they need to succeed. While you're technically credible and understand the details of the work being done, your role is about empowering a world-class engineering team, fostering their health, and driving delivery on product commitments.

In this role, you will lead the Cells Infrastructure team, which is responsible for developing key services and components of the horizontally scalable Cells architecture we are developing.

Challenges in this role include growing top-tier talent, improving productivity, and working cross-functionally to deliver on the closely linked Cells and Organizations initiatives. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership, product managers, site reliability engineers, and backend engineers. Your leadership will have an impact across the entire product as we build out the infrastructure and foundational services needed to migrate to the Cells architecture.

Some examples of our projects:

• Cells Blueprint
• Organizations Blueprint
• Protocells

What you’ll do

• Hire and manage a globally-distributed, high-performing team that lives our values
• Hold regular 1:1s with all members of your team, providing coaching and regular feedback around the individual’s performance.
• Collaborate with the engineering leadership and key stakeholders to align on and drive the team’s roadmap.
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
• Run agile project management processes and contribute to process improvements within the team and stage group.
• Participate in 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

• 2+ years of experience managing teams of development and infrastructure engineers working with highly-available distributed systems at a large scale.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate in a high-performance, remote work environment across multiple time zones and cultures.
• Experience working on foundational features and services in a complex SaaS environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Alignment with our company values and a commitment to working in accordance with those values.

It’s a Plus if You Have

• Experience implementing and migrating a large scale application to a cellular architecture.
• Working knowledge of the team’s primary tech stack - Ruby on Rails, Go, TypeScript, Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Used for personal or professional projects.
• Past experience working in an enterprise developer tools company.
• Contributed to open source projects.

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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