Senior Engineering Manager - Continuous Deployment

GitLab is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager - Continuous Deployment 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

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

• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers, setting clear expectations for quality and accountability.

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

• Set expectations for reliable, secure, maintainable, and performant delivery, and help the team meet them.

• Encourage the use of artificial intelligence as a core part of how the team works, with engineers using artificial intelligence tools in their daily workflows to improve efficiency and innovation.

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

• Track milestone progress, identify blockers early, and address patterns before they require escalation.

• Participate in the incident management on-call rotation to help maintain availability targets for GitLab.com.

What you’ll bring

• Experience managing engineering team, including advising on architecture and contributing to technical discussions.

• Experience with distributed systems and durable workflow execution, including state persistence and replay patterns.

• Experience building or managing 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 reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.

• Experience building and managing teams in early-stage contexts, including defining processes, hiring foundational team members, and establishing how the team works.

• Experience working across functions, exercising judgment, and moving work forward in ambiguous or fast-changing situations.

About GitLab

The Senior Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment role is part of GitLab's broader DevOps engineering organization, working on software delivery experiences that help customers ship with assurance. We solve complex deployment challenges in a way that fits GitLab's single-platform approach, with close coordination across product, engineering, and infrastructure. This work brings together platform architecture, delivery reliability, and GitLab's evolving artificial intelligence strategy in a h