Director of Engineering, Organizations & Cells

GitLab is hiring a Director of Engineering, Organizations & Cells in Bangalore.

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, in

Responsibilities

• Delivery of the Cells and Organizations roadmap — cell provisioning and lifecycle, the routing and topology layer, organization data migration tooling, and feature parity across the platform.

• Migration execution. Cohort-based movement of customer Organizations onto cells with zero data loss, verified rollback, and no downtime outside the tenant in flight.

• A multi-cloud, multi-region cell footprint and the architectural decisions that govern what stays cell-local and what crosses boundaries.

• The engineering organization. Hire, level, and develop managers and senior ICs across several teams. Set the technical bar and the operating cadence.

• Cross-functional leadership. This charter touches nearly every product group at GitLab. You will drive commitments and sequencing with peer engineering leaders, Product, Infrastructure, and Security — much of it asynchronously, across time zones, in public issues and merge requests.

How success is measured

• Customer Organizations running on cells in production, migrated cleanly and on schedule.

• Availability and latency improvements attributable to isolation and load distribution.

• Infrastructure cost per unit of capacity trending down as the footprint grows.

• Throughput and retention of the teams you build.

What you will bring

Engineering leadership at director scale

• Experience leading multiple teams through managers (roughly 25–60 engineers), including hiring and developing managers.

• A track record of shipping multi-quarter infrastructure programs with hard external dependencies — the kind where the hardest problem is sequencing across ten teams, not writing the code.

• Comfort operating as a peer to VPs and staff-plus engineers: you can hold an architectural position on technical merit and change it when the evidence changes.

• Strong written communication. GitLab is remote and asynchronous by default; influence here is exercised in documents.

About GitLab

GitLab.com is being rebuilt as a horizontally scalable cluster. Two primitives make that possible: Organizations, the tenant boundary that makes a customer's data a single addressable, portable unit, and Cells, independent GitLab instances that host those Organizations and can be provisioned on demand across clouds and regions. The target is a 100x increase in headroom for GitLab.com, delivered without customers ever seeing a cell. Same domain, same URLs, same product — a substrate underneath th