Engineering Manager, Continuous Delivery

GitLab is hiring an Engineering Manager, Continuous Delivery in India.

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

• Build and lead a new globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and grow their careers.

• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers who embody GitLab's values and hold themselves to a high standard of quality and ownership.

• Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the roadmap, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver against product commitments.

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence across reliability, performance, security, and maintainability, while keeping the pace expected in a fast-moving product area.

• Champion AI as a core part of how the team works, encouraging engineers to incorporate AI tools into their daily workflows to drive efficiency and innovation.

• Hold regular 1:1s, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development.

• Drive a healthy delivery cadence by maintaining visibility into milestone progress, identifying blockers early, and proactively addressing patterns before they require escalation.

• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure availability targets for GitLab.com are met.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical credibility to provide architectural guidance and participate meaningfully in technical discussions.

• Strong background in distributed systems and durable workflow execution, including state persistence and replay patterns.

• Experience building or leading teams working on release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery at scale.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and GitOps workflows, including progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.

• Experience with policy-based governance and event-driven architectures in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.

• Proven ability to build and lead teams in early-stage contexts, including defining team processes, hiring foundational members, and establishing a strong team culture.

• Strong cross-functional alignment and consensus-building skills, with the ability to drive decisions and execution even in the face of ambiguity or competing priorities.

About GitLab

The GitLab CD team is a newly formed group within the Deploy stage. The team will be primarily Go engineers, with Ruby on Rails and frontend engineers joining as the product matures. As CD Engineering Manager you will work closely with adjacent teams across Verify, Runner, and Infrastructure, building in a collaborative, async-first environment where engineers take real ownership of outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape something new within an established company operating at s