Senior Engineering Manager, DevEx
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GitLabDevSecOps
Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, USFull-TimeSenior
Salary168,000 - 285,600 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- KubernetesHelm
Requirements
- Experience leading remote engineering teams through change and ambiguity.
- Track record of building clarity, maintaining accountability, and guiding teams through organizational change.
- Strong technical background in Kubernetes platforms.
- Hands-on familiarity with standard Kubernetes concepts and interfaces (Services, CNI, API Gateway, etc.).
- Sound judgment in guiding teams on effective platform usage and best practices.
- Working knowledge of Helm and containerized delivery models.
- Experience with self-managed, on-prem, or bare metal environments (OpenShift, OpenStack, Proxmox, etc.).
- Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and contribute informed opinions on platform architecture and system integration.
- Experience with performance management and coaching.
- Hands-on experience with CLI-based AI coding tools.
- Relevant experience in platform, infrastructure, SRE, or developer productivity roles.
Responsibilities
- Manage four teams: developer tooling (Caproni), observability enablement, performance enablement, and development analytics.
- Build a coherent, Kubernetes-first platform vision that serves GitLab.com, Dedicated, and thousands of self-managed deployments.
- Create clarity around technical direction, strengthen team execution, and align work with unified platform standards.
- Lead engineering teams working on developer tooling and platform capabilities.
- Drive a Kubernetes-first platform vision that supports both cloud and self-managed environments.
- Guide technical and organizational decisions across areas such as developer environments, packaging, local and hosted testing workflows.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leaders, staff engineers, and adjacent teams.
- Manage team health, performance, and prioritization in a remote environment.
- Develop clear direction from high-level strategy, turning broad platform goals into actionable roadmaps.
- Support the adoption of AI-assisted development practices.
- Improve execution by creating clarity, encouraging strong technical discussion, and helping teams make decisions.
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