Director of Engineering, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms

As the Director of Dedicated Infrastructure Engineering & Platforms, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, GitLab's premium single-tenant SaaS offering for enterprise customers in regulated industries, and public sector. You will lead a high-performing organization of managers and engineers who own the entire lifecycle of dedicated and cellular platforms, from orchestration, integrations, resilience, and incident response to switchboard APIs, public sector compliance, and enterprise customer migrations.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, and ensure the platform scales with customer growth and converges with GitLab's cellular architecture; Partner with Product and executive leadership to deliver on growth targets, with a focus on platform reliability, faster customer onboarding, infrastructure cost efficiency, and self-service administration; Lead the engineering teams that build and run the platform: tenant orchestration and integrations, resilience and incident response, the Switchboard control plane, public sector platforms and compliance, and enterprise migrations and import tooling; Uphold enterprise-grade SLAs across every tenant; Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government: AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations and audit readiness, air-gapped isolation, and public sector feature delivery; Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable, repeatable, and low-disruption through self-service tooling and guided workflows; Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams, and bring practical AI-enabled workflows into how the organization works; Partner with Product, Security, and Customer Support to keep customer commitments, architecture, and investments aligned; Take part in on-call or operational support where your team's ownership model requires it

Requirements

You have led engineering organizations that run enterprise single or multi tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale; You have measurably improved production reliability, reduced toil, or lowered infrastructure cost on a platform you owned; You have deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services that deploy and scale independently across cloud environments; You have delivered and operated enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud; You have led organizational changes, including adopting AI enabled workflows that raise engineering system efficiencies; You translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps; You lead with ownership, speed with quality, and a focus on customer outcomes

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