Engineering Manager, Continuous Delivery

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role

As Engineering Manager for GitLab CD, you'll build and lead a brand-new, globally distributed team at the forefront of GitLab 's next generation of Continuous Deployment capabilities. This is a greenfield opportunity: you'll hire foundational engineers, shape the team's culture and ways of working, and own delivery of a first-class CD product within GitLab 's DevSecOps platform.

Your team will build a CD engine that goes beyond script execution—bringing true reconciliation, live state awareness, durable orchestration, and AI-native governance to GitLab 's platform. The goal is to deliver features that enable customers to deploy software reliably, safely, and with confidence. This work sits at the intersection of GitLab 's core platform and its AI strategy, making it a high-visibility, fast-moving area of the product.

You'll partner closely with Product Management, cross-functional engineering teams, and infrastructure stakeholders to align technical decisions with customer needs and business goals, while building a team culture grounded in GitLab 's values.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a new globally distributed engineering team, creating an environment where team members can do their best work and grow their careers.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers who embody GitLab 's values and hold themselves to a high standard of quality and ownership.
• Partner with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the roadmap, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver