Engineering Manager, Build
Job description
Lead the Build team within GitLab Delivery, accountable for the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of the systems that turn GitLab source code into secure, verified, and distributable artifacts for Self-Managed and other delivery targets. The role owns the build platform foundations that make component delivery faster, more consistent, and more self-service for development teams.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Lead the Build team roadmap across UBT, TUBE, and the broader build platform.
- Own delivery of GitLab distributable artifacts, including packages, container images, and cloud marketplace images.
- Drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model across Omnibus, CNG, and future delivery targets.
- Lead centralized dependency management and coordinated dependency updates across components.
- Ensure supply chain security through SBOMs, provenance, vetted dependencies, and compliant build isolation.
- Create self-service onboarding paths with standard CI templates, documentation, and paved paths.
- Improve build quality and consistency through unified build environments and validation.
- Establish observability, dashboards, and metrics for build pipelines and platform impact.
- Partner across Delivery and adjacent teams to unblock onboarding and reduce coordination overhead.
What we're looking for
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy
- Experience in driving operational excellence and you've owned services running at four-nines (99.99%) SLOs and know what it takes to keep them there
- Experience leveraging AI tooling to boost team productivity, with real lessons learned from both wins and missteps
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated TPM
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively
Your team
Build team within GitLab Delivery
The team owns the build platform foundations that make component delivery faster, more consistent, and more self-service for development teams.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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About GitLab
The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
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.
Key facts
- DevSecOps software
- More than 50 million registered users
- More than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab
- All roles are remote
- GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world