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Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain

GitLab · Bangalore, India

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 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

As an Engineering Manager for the Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) Add-On team at GitLab, you will lead a backend engineering team focused on developing security features such as Dependency Firewall and Malicious Packages detection. Your role involves guiding the team in delivering high-quality software, managing engineering delivery milestones, and fostering team growth through hiring and performance management. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering partners to ensure effective communication and execution of the product roadmap.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
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

  • Over 3 years of experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.
  • Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments.
  • Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
  • Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies.
  • Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
  • Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
  • Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.

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

  • Role involves managing a distributed team, which may require strong asynchronous communication skills.
  • The position is focused on security and compliance, which may limit exposure to other areas of software development.
  • No specific salary or compensation details provided.

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Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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