The opportunity
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
What you'll do
Set technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, shaping architecture and: platform strategy as we scale a growing fleet of isolated, single-tenant environments.
Lead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant: orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations.
Drive scalable, modular architecture that aligns Dedicated with GitLab’s: broader Cells strategy while preserving its security, isolation, and compliance requirements.
Strengthen service ownership and operational maturity, helping engineering: teams build, operate, and improve the production systems they own.
Identify and address systemic reliability and scalability risks using: production signals, incident patterns, and architectural insight.
Establish reusable platform patterns and automation that reduce operational: toil and allow Dedicated to scale efficiently.
What they're looking for
- Lead complex technical decisions across teams, balancing reliability,: security, cost, maintainability, and customer needs.
- Advance engineering excellence across the organization through architectural: leadership, mentorship, and influence with senior engineers and engineering leaders.
- Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend: Engineering, with experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability,: infrastructure as code, and modern production engineering practices.
