GitLab - Engineering Manager, Cell Infrastructure

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production using cell-based architecture. • Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including experience with on-call, incident management, and site reliability engineering practices. • Operational ownership • Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as consistency models, partitioning and sharding, failure modes, and multi-region or multi-cloud tradeoffs. • Strong knowledge • Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment, with scope aligned to either a single team or a broader multi-team organization. • Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and, at the senior manager level, engineering managers. • Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers • Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools that other engineering teams use to build and deploy software. • Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools • Comfort working in ambiguity and helping define direction in an early-stage build rather than stepping into a maintenance-focused role; transferable experience from comparable large-scale infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, FinOps, AI-supporting systems, or major architecture transitions is welcome. • Comfort working in ambiguity • Clear cross-functional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with VP-level and CTO-level stakeholders. • Clear cross-functional communication skills • The Platform Scale & Architecture team focuses on evolving the core infrastructure patterns that let GitLab scale securely, reliably, and efficiently as customer and product demands grow. Within that group, the Cell Infrastructure area focuses on the platform layer behind cell provisioning, placement, routing, and operations across cloud environments. Depending on level, you'll oversee either a focused team working on one part of the problem or a broader set of teams across the cell infrastructure space. We work asynchronously across regions and partner closely with Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD teams to support GitLab's broader multi-cloud strategy. A key focus for us is balancing portability, data residency, reliability, and cost as GitLab moves further into a cell-based architecture. For more on how this organization works, see Team Handbook Page. • Platform Scale & Architecture • How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • 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 • Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. 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're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines: