Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering

ABOUT THE ROLE ---------------- As Vice President of Engineering, you will lead a globally distributed engineering organization at GitLab, overseeing the development of our AI-powered DevSecOps platform. You will partner with executive stakeholders to align engineering direction with company priorities, driving technical depth, and experience exercising sound judgment in complex engineering environments. This is a hands-on executive role for someone who brings a track record of building and scaling systems, teams, and product delivery. WHAT YOU'LL DO -------------- You will own engineering across multiple product areas, strengthening how teams deliver reliable and modern software, and advancing our AI-native approach across engineering workflows, developer tooling, code review, and continuous delivery. Key responsibilities include: - Defining the engineering strategy for your functional area, aligning roadmap, investments, and organizational planning with GitLab's company direction. - Leading a large, globally distributed engineering organization across multiple product domains, supporting Directors, Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, and their teams. - Driving operational excellence through clear engineering metrics, strong incident management practices, and a disciplined approach to reliability, quality, and developer productivity. - Championing AI-native engineering practices across workflows, platforms, and products, including developer tooling, code review, and CI/CD. - Partnering with Product Management to create a consistent, high-velocity working model between engineering and product teams. - Collaborating with Finance and executive peers on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment tradeoffs. - Working with Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and security leaders to address enterprise needs and support strategic initiatives. - Representing your engineering organization in executive discussions, board-level conversations, and external forums through clear communication and transparent documentation. WHAT YOU'LL NEED ---------------- To succeed in this role, you will need: - Experience leading large engineering organizations across multiple product areas in a distributed environment, including leadership through Directors and Senior Managers. - Strong technical credibility with the ability to engage senior individual contributors and leaders on architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and system design tradeoffs. - Background building scalable frontend platforms or large-scale user-facing systems, alongside backend or infrastructure experience. - Direct experience modernizing a monolithic application into modular, independently deployable architecture in production, including runtime composition decisions and migration sequencing. - Experience developing or scaling a design system that acts as a reliable contract between platform and product teams, with attention to versioning, testing, and documentation. - Familiarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows, with a clear understanding of the difference between AI features and AI-native architecture. - Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with clear written communication and sound organizational judgment. - Strength in cross-functional leadership, including work with executive stakeholders on business cases, investment planning, customer requirements, and balancing innovation with operational stability. WHY REMOTE ------------ GitLab is a remote-first company, and this role will be based entirely remotely. You will be expected to work effectively in an asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with clear written communication and sound organizational judgment. BENEFITS --------- As a member of the GitLab team, you will enjoy a range of benefits, including a competitive salary, comprehensive