Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Software ArchitectureCI/CD
Requirements
- Experience leading large engineering organizations across multiple product areas in a distributed environment.
- Strong technical credibility with the ability to engage senior individual contributors and leaders on architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and system design tradeoffs.
- Background building scalable frontend platforms or large-scale user-facing systems, alongside backend or infrastructure experience.
- Direct experience modernizing a monolithic application into modular, independently deployable architecture in production.
- Experience developing or scaling a design system that acts as a reliable contract between platform and product teams.
- Familiarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows.
- Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with clear written communication.
- Strength in cross-functional leadership and executive-level collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Define the engineering strategy for your functional area, aligning roadmap, investments, and organizational planning with GitLab's company direction.
- Lead a large, globally distributed engineering organization across multiple product domains, supporting Directors, Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, and their teams.
- Drive operational excellence through clear engineering metrics, strong incident management practices, and a disciplined approach to reliability, quality, and developer productivity.
- Champion AI-native engineering practices across workflows, platforms, and products, including developer tooling, code review, and CI/CD.
- Partner with Product Management to create a consistent, high-velocity working model between engineering and product teams.
- Collaborate with Finance and executive peers on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment tradeoffs.
- Work with Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and security leaders to address enterprise needs and support strategic initiatives.
- Represent your engineering organization in executive discussions, board-level conversations, and external forums through clear communication and transparent documentation.
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