Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, and they are seeking a Manager / Senior Manager for Cell Infrastructure. This high-impact leadership role involves shaping the technical direction for multi-cloud cell infrastructure and building a team focused on the reliability and efficiency of GitLab's cell-based architecture.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems that support GitLab's cell-based architecture
- Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure, spanning architecture, delivery, and production operations
- Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams to make unit economics part of the system design
- Own the reliability model for cell infrastructure, including on-call practices, incident response, and postmortem follow-through
- Partner with adjacent teams such as Git infrastructure, Artifact Registry, Duo Agent Platform, and CI/CD to support their scaling and deployment needs
- Define and evolve architectural decisions for cross-cloud routing, data residency, and infrastructure portability
- Develop platform capabilities and developer tooling that let teams deploy on top of cell infrastructure without needing to understand its internal complexity
- Represent the team in cross-functional planning with senior engineering stakeholders on GitLab's broader cells and multi-cloud strategy
Skills
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production using cell-based architecture
- Operational ownership of highly reliable systems, including experience with on-call, incident management, and site reliability engineering practices
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals such as consistency models, partitioning and sharding, failure modes, and multi-region or multi-cloud tradeoffs
- Experience leading engineering teams in a distributed environment, with scope aligned to either a single team or a broader multi-team organization
- Ability to hire, support, and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors and, at the senior manager level, engineering managers
- Experience building platform capabilities or developer tools that other engineering teams use to build and deploy software
- Comfort working in ambiguity and helping define direction in an early-stage build rather than stepping into a maintenance-focused role; transferable experience from comparable large-scale infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, FinOps, AI-supporting systems, or major architecture transitions is welcome
- Clear cross-functional communication skills and the ability to work effectively with VP-level and CTO-level stakeholders
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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