Engineering Manager, Dedicated Integrations
Lead a team building and operating large-scale distributed systems at GitLab, focusing on integration and operational excellence.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
All team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Engineering Manager for Dedicated Integrations at GitLab leads a team focused on integrating third-party features into the GitLab ecosystem, ensuring high availability and operational excellence. This role requires a strong technical background in large-scale distributed systems, along with experience in driving team productivity through AI tools. Ideal candidates are seasoned leaders who have successfully built high-performing teams and can manage complex projects independently. GitLab fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, emphasizing continuous improvement and automation.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Engineering Manager, Dedicated Integrations role remote?
- Yes — GitLab lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Dedicated Integrations role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, DevSecOps, distributed systems.
- What seniority level is this role?
- GitLab targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Dedicated Integrations role at GitLab.
From the original posting
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. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
We're looking for a technical engineering manager to lead a team building and operating large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong operational instincts and a passion for building high-performing teams.
You will lead the Dedicated Platform Integration team, responsible for the integration of third-party and modular features in the GitLab ecosystem, for Dedicated platform hosted SaaS.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enable effective execution with Quality and Speed, in partnership with the team’s Product Manager
- Ensure 3+ 9s availability of Dedicated infrastructure, ensuring security and automating for maximum scalability and number of tenants.
- Provide clear direction, meaningful feedback and foster an environment where meaningless toil gets ruthlessly automated and Devops ownership is enforced.
- Continuously improved owned artifacts in a direction of optimizing platforms for self-service ownership of production for feature implementers.
- Recruitment, onboarding and development of excellent and productive team members.
- Be a role model for the team: provide Proof of concepts, agentic mindset and extreme simplification of processes and removal of human toil. Show and Tell, not only Tell.
- Role model Incident Management best-practices, lead in fast resolutions, escalations and train and codify best practices to the whole of GitLab
- Data driven approach to prioritization, impact quantification and management of risk and technical debt.Able to use AI to demonstrate concepts and translate technical complexity to drive stakeholder decisions.
What you'll bring:
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
- Experience with fleet management products, including Terraform, AWS and automated provisioning at scale (20+ clusters)
- Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-nines (99.99%) SLOs and know what it takes to keep them there
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with real lessons learned from both wins and missteps
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated TPM
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively
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