Engineering Manager, Agent Foundations: Agent Execution

Overview

Engineering Manager for GitLab’s Agent Execution group, leading engineers building foundations for AI agents to run safely and effectively across GitLab.

What you'll do

• Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering.
• Grow the group by hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers.
• Partner with product and UX to turn ambiguous problems into shipped milestones and clarify prioritization tradeoffs.
• Contribute to technical design for safely running agents at scale, including sandboxing and observability.
• Establish standards for AI tool usage, including tool selection and configuration.
• Represent the group across GitLab’s AI organization and with teams dependent on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

What you'll need

• Experience managing distributed engineering teams through technical leads and staff-level engineers.
• Hands-on engineering experience plus fluency with modern AI coding tools and agent harnesses.
• Ability to guide teams in applying AI to software engineering workflows and technical decision-making.
• Experience delivering results in fast-paced environments with ambiguous requirements.
• Commitment to coaching and developing engineers in a positive, inclusive environment.
• Helpful experience building and deploying AI products, including sandboxing, container isolation, infrastructure security, observability, reliability engineering, or using Python, Ruby, Go, or TypeScript.

Details

• Work location: Remote, United States.
• Base salary (United States): USD 152,800–172,800.