Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure

GitLab is hiring an Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure 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

• Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems that support GitLab's cell-based architecture.

• Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure, spanning architecture, delivery, and production operations.

• Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams to make unit economics part of the system design.

• Own the reliability model for cell infrastructure, including on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem follow-through.

• Partner with adjacent teams such as Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD to support their scaling and deployment needs.

• Define and evolve architectural decisions for cross-cloud routing, data residency, and infrastructure portability.

• Develop platform capabilities and developer tooling that let teams deploy on top of cell infrastructure without needing to understand its internal complexity.

• Represent the team in cross-functional planning with senior engineering stakeholders on GitLab's broader cells and multi-cloud strategy.

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production using cell-based architecture.

• Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including experience with on-call, incident management, and site reliability engineering practices.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as consistency models, partitioning and sharding, failure modes, and multi-region or multi-cloud tradeoffs.

• Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment, with scope aligned to either a single team or a broader multi-team organization.

• Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and, at the senior manager level, engineering managers.

• Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools that other engineering teams use to build and deploy software.

• Comfort working in ambiguity and helping define direction in an early-stage build rather than stepping into a maintenance-focused role; transferable experience from comparable large-scale infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, FinOps, AI-supporting systems, or major architecture transitions is welcome.

About GitLab

The Platform Scale & Architecture team focuses on evolving the core infrastructure patterns that let GitLab scale securely, reliably, and efficiently as customer and product demands grow. Within that group, the Cell Infrastructure area focuses on the platform layer behind cell provisioning, placement, routing, and operations across cloud environments. Depending on level, you'll oversee either a focused team working on one part of the problem or a broader set of teams across the cell infrastructu