Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release at GitLab Inc.

An overview of this role

• As Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release, your primary responsibility is to build a world-class team and put them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive, and the team produces results.
• You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals, and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable solution for releasing software to our customers. Your team, consisting of both Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, will be globally distributed, and you will work in an agile and sync way to improve the way we release GitLab. The team consists of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, who must efficiently coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.

What you'll do

• Hire an incredible team that lives our values
• Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces results
• Guide Release Orchestration and Release Management
• Manage agile projects
• Work across sections within Infrastructure and Engineering
• Manage the security, performance and scalability of the release process
• Improve the quality, security and performance of the product
• Work on small changes outside of the critical path
• Participate in either the Release Manager rotation when needed or the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

What you'll bring

• Experience leading Software Delivery, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
• Excellent technical background
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate them to understandable language for the business
• Demonstrated teamwork in a peak-performance organization
• Experience running a consumer-scale platform
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience or startup experience
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about open source and developer tools
• Exquisite communication skills
• Management at GitLab
• Experience in managing a remote team