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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 69 days GitLab's roles stay open a median of 76 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of GitLab's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at GitLab
- high 229 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
- Hiring momentum
- 338 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GitLab's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GitLab.
About this role
The Director of Engineering for Organizations & Cells at GitLab will lead the development and execution of the Cells and Organizations roadmap, focusing on migrating customer data to a scalable architecture. This role involves managing a team of engineers, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, and overseeing the successful delivery of infrastructure programs while maintaining high standards of performance and availability.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.
What you need
- Engineering leadership at director scale
- Experience leading multiple teams through managers (roughly 25–60 engineers)
- A track record of shipping multi-quarter infrastructure programs with hard external dependencies
- Comfort operating as a peer to VPs and staff-plus engineers
- Strong written communication skills
- Depth in distributed systems
What you get
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Worth weighing
- No specific salary or compensation details listed
- Role involves significant cross-functional leadership and coordination across multiple teams
- The position is remote but may have location-based eligibility requirements
Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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