Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

GitLab is hiring an Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades 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

• Guide a globally distributed engineering team and create an environment where team members can do strong work and grow in an all-remote, asynchronous setting.

• Hire onboard, and develop team members who align with GitLab’s values and contribute to an outcome-focused engineering organization.

• Manage and improve agile, asynchronous workflows so the team can deliver deployment tooling and services iteratively and reliably.

• Partner with Product Management and engineering peers across Infrastructure Platforms to align team priorities with customer needs and business goals.

• Own the reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity of GitLab deployments across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.

• Improve deployment patterns, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration for customers running GitLab on their own infrastructure.

• Apply technical judgment in areas such as Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application delivery to guide choices and unblock the team.

• Participate in incident management and work with reliability and development teams to help maintain the availability of GitLab.com.

What you’ll bring

• Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams that operate at meaningful scale.

• Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.

• Familiarity with cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.

• Experience working on enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment.

• Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and explain tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience building high-performing, distributed teams and supporting team members in an asynchronous, all-remote environment.

• Effective cross-functional skills across functions such as Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success to improve customer outcomes.

About GitLab

The GitLab Delivery - Operate team is part of the Infrastructure Platforms department, which enables how GitLab operates, scales, and is delivered across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed offerings. We are a globally distributed team that owns deployment tooling and operational patterns to help customers run GitLab reliably on infrastructure ranging from virtual machines to Kubernetes clusters. We work asynchronously across regions and work closely with other Infrastructure teams, a