GitLab - VP of Engineering, Architecture and Transformation

• Large-Scale Engineering Leadership: Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organizations, including horizontal or platform functions that span multiple product areas. • Large-Scale Engineering Leadership: • World-Scale Service Operations: Deep background in building, operating and evolving highly available, world-scale services with a strong focus on reliability and quality. • World-Scale Service Operations: • Architectural Expertise: Demonstrated technical depth across modern software architectures, including experience driving major architectural transitions such as decoupling monoliths and defining foundational primitives. • Architectural Expertise: • Hands-On Technical Leadership: Hands-on engineering leadership style, with the ability to engage directly in code and technical design when needed while guiding teams from strategy through execution. • Hands-On Technical Leadership: • AI-Assisted Development: Expertise in AI-assisted development and tooling, with a track record of using AI to improve developer productivity and inform product direction. • AI-Assisted Development: • Cost-Conscious Architecture: Experience driving COGS-conscious engineering decisions, optimizing architectures and operations for both performance and cost efficiency. • Cost-Conscious Architecture: • Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed environment, aligning engineering, product and executive stakeholders around shared outcomes. • Cross-Functional Influence: • Product-Minded Change Leadership: Strong product mindset and change leadership skills, including managing the human side of large technical shifts in similarly complex, high-scale environments. • Product-Minded Change Leadership: • Our ELT-led engineering pillar drives platform-wide impact across GitLab. We partner with product and engineering leaders across all verticals to raise engineering standards and support long-term architectural and AI initiatives. You'll join a small, high-context, globally distributed group that works asynchronously. We also provide responsive coverage during US business hours through embedded engineers who join target teams as full contributors. We focus on solving systemic, cross-cutting engineering challenges and accelerating delivery where capacity or geographic gaps exist, turning GitLab's global footprint into a strategic advantage. • 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: