Director of Engineering, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms

What you'll be doing

  • Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, scaling the platform with customer growth and aligning with cellular architecture.
  • Partner with Product and executive leadership to meet growth targets focusing on platform reliability, faster onboarding, cost efficiency, and self-service administration.
  • Lead engineering teams responsible for tenant orchestration, integrations, resilience, incident response, Switchboard control plane, compliance, and enterprise migrations.
  • Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government with AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP readiness, air-gapped isolation, and public sector feature delivery.
  • Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable and low-disruption using self-service tooling and guided workflows.
  • Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers and integrate AI-enabled workflows within the organization.
  • Collaborate with Product, Security, and Customer Support to align customer commitments and architectural investments.

Requirements

  • Experience leading engineering organizations managing enterprise single or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
  • Proven track record improving production reliability, reducing toil, or lowering infrastructure costs.
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular scalable services across cloud environments.
  • Experience delivering and operating enterprise platforms under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
  • Proven leadership in organizational changes, including adoption of AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering efficiency.
  • Ability to translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount planning, and execution roadmaps.
  • Leadership approach emphasizing ownership, speed with quality, and customer outcome focus.

About the team

  • Platform Orchestration & Integrations: orchestration, deployment, automation, and external integrations for dedicated tenants and cellular environments.
  • Core Features, Resilience & Response: compliance-driven features, disaster recovery, automated failover, and incident response automation.
  • Switchboard & Control Plane: APIs, tenant change automation, and interfaces enabling self-service capabilities.
  • Public Sector Platforms & Compliance: AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations, air-gapped isolation, and Geo replication.
  • Enterprise Migrations & Import Tooling: migration programs, tooling, direct transfers, and guided import workflows to ensure smooth customer transitions.

Perks and benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).
  • Team Member Resource Groups promoting inclusion and community.
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plans.
  • Growth and development fund for continuous learning.
  • Parental leave benefits.
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