Engineering Manager, Dedicated Infrastructure
Remote · United States of America · USD 152,800-259,200 · Remote · Posted Sep 26, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote · United States of America
- Salary
- USD 152,800-259,200 · Base salary
About the role
- You'll lead GitLab's Dedicated Infrastructure team, combining hands-on technical leadership with team development.
- Working with the team's Product Manager, you'll balance delivery speed and quality, guide architecture decisions, and lead the team through incidents.
- You'll demonstrate ideas through proofs of concept, give team members meaningful feedback, and use data to make prioritization and risk decisions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the team's Product Manager to set clear priorities and deliver with quality and speed.
- Maintain at least 99.9% availability for Dedicated infrastructure, strengthen security, and automate operations to support more tenants at scale.
- Give your team clear direction and meaningful feedback, and build shared ownership of development and operations.
- Improve the platforms and tools your team owns so feature implementers can manage their services in production through self-service workflows.
- Recruit, onboard, and develop productive team members, supporting their growth and accountability.
- Lead by example with proofs of concept and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted approaches. Simplify processes and automate repetitive manual work.
- Model effective incident management, lead timely resolution and escalation, and document and teach best practices across GitLab.
- Use data to prioritize work, quantify impact, and manage risk and technical debt. Explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders to support their decisions.
Requirements
- A track record of building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to evaluate architecture and guide technical strategy.
- Experience with fleet management, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and automated provisioning at a scale of 20 or more clusters.
- Experience owning services with 99.99% availability service-level objectives (SLOs), and an understanding of the operational practices needed to sustain them.
- Experience using AI tools to improve team productivity, with lessons learned from both successes and missteps.
- Experience building and managing accountable, high-performing teams, including addressing underperformance and making difficult performance decisions when needed.
- The ability to lead complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated Technical Program Manager.
- Experience leading distributed, remote teams effectively.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Workplace
- All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.
Skills
- Terraform
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Fleet Management
- Automated Provisioning