Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release
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
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
All remote, asynchronous work environment
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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Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release
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
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
All remote, asynchronous work environment
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.
Remote-Global