Director of Engineering – Workflows, Runners

🕒 May 7

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision and roadmap for GitLab’s core Workflow and Function Runtime primitives, in partnership with Product, Architecture, and other platform teams. • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams responsible for highly available, horizontally scalable, and secure distributed systems used across GitLab. • Be hands-on with architecture and code: review designs, dive into incidents, and contribute to critical paths where needed. • Drive operational excellence for these shared services, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, capacity planning, and resilience across regions and tenants. • Optimize for cost and efficiency at scale, balancing performance, reliability, and unit economics for long-running and bursty workloads. • Define and mature platform APIs and abstractions that allow product teams to compose workflows, schedule functions, and integrate with the runtime safely and predictably. • Create a strong engineering culture focused on results, iteration, ownership, and rigorous technical judgment. • Collaborate across the company (Product Management, Security, Infrastructure, Data, AI/ML, and other stage groups) to ensure the platform primitives meet the needs of diverse workloads. • Recruit, develop, and retain senior and staff-level engineers and managers; provide clear expectations, feedback, and growth paths. • Champion GitLab values (results, transparency, efficiency, collaboration, diversity & inclusion) in how the team plans, executes, and communicates.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading teams building core platform or infrastructure services (e.g., workflow engines, function runtimes, control planes, high-scale microservices, or similar distributed systems). • Track record as a hands-on engineering leader: you’ve meaningfully contributed to architecture and design, and you are comfortable reading/writing code to unblock or clarify. • Strong background in scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems, including topics such as service decomposition, data partitioning, fault tolerance, and backpressure. • Demonstrated success operating mission-critical services in production (SLOs, on-call, incident management, postmortems, capacity management, chaos/DR testing). • Experience driving cost efficiency in cloud-native environments (profiling, performance tuning, right-sizing, storage and network optimization, and thoughtful use of managed services). • Familiarity with Kubernetes, modern cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and event-driven/async architectures; experience with function-as-a-service or serverless runtimes is a plus. • People leadership experience managing managers and senior/staff engineers, with a record of hiring, coaching, and building inclusive, high-trust teams. • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed organization, with excellent written and asynchronous communication skills. • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4–6+ years in engineering leadership (multi-team or org-level scope).

🏖️ 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 • Home Office Support