Senior Engineering Manager, DevEx

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.

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.

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An overview of this role

As a Senior Engineering Manager within Delivery Enablement, you'll manage four teams: developer tooling (Caproni), observability enablement, performance enablement, and development analytics. Your mandate is to build a coherent, Kubernetes-first platform vision that serves GitLab.com, Dedicated, and thousands of self-managed deployments, a rare combination that most companies split into cloud-only or pure on-prem. In your first year, you'll create clarity around technical direction, strengthen team execution, and align work with unified platform standards. You'll report to the Director of Delivery Enablement.

You'll succeed by combining people management with technical depth: engaging in details, making sound calls amid change, and moving teams forward with transparency and accountability. This role is ideal if you're passionate about platform engineering, grasp the complexities of operating across both cloud and on-prem environments, and want to work in a space where Kubernetes, Helm, AI-enabled workflows, and developer productivity intersect.

Developer Tooling (Caproni): Platform foundations and tools that help engineers write and test code efficiently

Observability Enablement: Provide infrastructure and tooling to enable engineers to monitor and operatre production services

Performance Enablement: Helping teams optimize build and delivery performance

Development Analytics: Providing insights into developer experience and workflow metrics

What you’ll do

Lead engineering teams working on developer tooling and platform capabilities that support faster, more consistent software delivery across GitLab, measured through improvements in build times, observability, and delivery consistency.

Drive a Kubernetes-first platform vision that supports both cloud and self-managed environments, including the tradeoffs needed for on-prem delivery.

Guide technical and organizational decisions across areas such as developer environments, packaging, local and hosted testing workflows, and integration with broader platform efforts.

Collaborate closely with engineering leaders, staff engineers, and adjacent teams to ensure DevEx investments connect cleanly with platform architecture and operational needs.

Manage team health, performance, and prioritization in a remote environment, including coaching team members, addressing performance concerns, and helping shape the team for future needs.

Develop clear direction from high-level strategy, turning broad platform goals into actionable roadmaps with defined milestones and success metrics that teams can execute with ownership.

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