engineering
Posted 1 weeks agoDirector, Engineering, Platform Operations & Productivity
at GitLab
Bangalore, IndiaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Own outcomes for Git & Gitaly Operations, including hiring and developing the Manager, Git & Gitaly Operations, and holding the function to its reliability bar across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS.
- Own outcomes for Nonlinear Productivity, also known as Friction Elimination, including hiring and developing the Manager, Nonlinear Productivity, and holding the function to measurable metric movement rather than activity.
- Build and oversee Platform Staff directly as a small, senior team that uses AI-assisted tools as a standard part of its work.
- Build the operating rhythm and metrics that keep all three functions running predictably, so none of them relies on any one person working unsustainable hours.
- A track record running highly effective engineering operations, including production reliability and incident management, at meaningful scale.
Requirements
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.
- 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, innovation, and impact.
- Platform Staff is a small, senior, AI-native team that moves to wherever the organization needs the most leverage, from standing up early scaffolding for an initiative, to taking on a high-impact customer request that doesn't fit any existing team's charter, to stepping directly into a production crisis until it's resolved.
- Working knowledge of GitLab's development workflows and platform capabilities so you can assess productivity friction, operational trade-offs, and team needs in context. Hands-on
- experience designing and shipping distributed systems personally, not only through teams you've managed.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools, and sound judgment about when they help a small team do work that would otherwise require a larger team. People management
- experience across multiple managers or functions at once.
- Through Git & Gitaly Operations, we are responsible for the production reliability of the infrastructure layer underneath GitLab's own version control system.
- Collectively, we help GitLab improve the reliability, productivity, and responsiveness of the platform that powers how our customers and GitLab team members build software.
- Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Additional details
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100
- trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
- GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued.
- Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
- Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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- As Director, Engineering, Platform Operations & Productivity, you'll own three functions that all require hands-on technical depth, not just people management.
- This role is for a technical engineering director who has personally built distributed systems, not only managed people who did.