GitLab - Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

• Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams that operate at meaningful scale. • Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns. • Strong technical knowledge • Understanding of cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies. • Understanding of • Understanding of • Experience supporting enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment. • Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and explain tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to investigate • Experience building high-performing, distributed teams and supporting team members in an asynchronous, all-remote environment. • Effective collaboration skills across functions such as Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success to improve customer outcomes. • Openness to diverse paths into the role, including transferable skills, formal computer science education, or equivalent practical experience, along with interest in open source and developer tools. • Openness to diverse paths • The GitLab Delivery - Operate team is part of the Infrastructure Platforms department, which supports how GitLab operates, scales, and is delivered across GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed offerings. We are a globally distributed team that owns deployment tooling and operational patterns to help customers run GitLab reliably on infrastructure ranging from virtual machines to Kubernetes clusters. We work asynchronously across regions and collaborate closely with other Infrastructure teams, along with Support and Customer Success, to turn lessons from operating GitLab at scale into product and tooling improvements that benefit customers across all deployment models. • GitLab Delivery - Operate • Infrastructure Platforms • GitLab.com • GitLab.com • GitLab Dedicated • GitLab Dedicated • self-managed • self-managed • How GitLab will support you • 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: