or apply directly on GitLab's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days GitLab's roles stay open a median of 99 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of GitLab's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at GitLab
- high 238 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
- Hiring momentum
- 94 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
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
As an Engineering Manager for GitLab Delivery - Operate, you will lead a globally distributed team focused on enhancing the deployment, upgrade, and operational reliability of GitLab in various infrastructures. Your role involves guiding the team in improving deployment experiences, managing agile workflows, and collaborating with product management to align engineering efforts with customer needs. You will also contribute to incident management and technical direction in areas like Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- 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
- Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams that operate at meaningful scale.
- Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, and upgrade orchestration patterns.
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
- Experience working on enterprise-scale or consumer-scale platforms, ideally in a product-focused software environment.
- Ability to investigate complex deployment and operational issues and explain tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience building high-performing, distributed teams and supporting team members in an asynchronous, all-remote environment.
Nice to have
- Openness to diverse paths into the role, including transferable skills, formal computer science education, or equivalent practical experience, along with interest in open source and developer tools.
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
- The role emphasizes a hands-on leadership approach in a fully remote and asynchronous environment, which may not suit everyone.
- The posting encourages applications from candidates with varying levels of experience, indicating flexibility in candidate qualifications.
- No specific salary or compensation details are provided in the posting.
Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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