Engineering Manager, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

Overview

Engineering Manager for GitLab Delivery - Operate, leading a globally distributed team focused on helping customers deploy, upgrade, and run GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Guide a globally distributed engineering team in an all-remote, asynchronous setting.
• Hire, onboard, and develop team members aligned with GitLab values and outcome-focused delivery.
• Manage and improve agile, asynchronous workflows for deployment tooling and services.
• Own reliability, upgrade experience, and operational simplicity across self-managed environments, GitLab.com, and GitLab Dedicated.
• Improve deployment patterns, observability, zero-downtime capabilities, and upgrade orchestration.
• Apply technical judgment in Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and stateful application delivery.
• Participate in incident management with reliability and development teams to help maintain GitLab.com availability.

What you'll need

• Experience guiding deployment tooling, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering teams at meaningful scale.
• Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes Operators and Helm charts for stateful applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployment architectures, database lifecycle management, schema migrations, and zero-downtime upgrade strategies.
• Experience investigating complex deployment and operational issues and explaining tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience building high-performing, distributed teams in an asynchronous, all-remote environment.
• Effective cross-functional skills across Infrastructure, Support, and Customer Success.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.