[Remote] Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to enhance developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. The Vice President of Engineering will oversee a globally distributed engineering organization, shaping the future of the AI-powered DevSecOps platform while aligning engineering direction with company priorities.ResponsibilitiesDefine the engineering strategy for your functional area, aligning roadmap, investments, and organizational planning with GitLab's company directionLead a large, globally distributed engineering organization across multiple product domains, supporting Directors, Senior Managers, Engineering Managers, and their teamsDrive operational excellence through clear engineering metrics, strong incident management practices, and a disciplined approach to reliability, quality, and developer productivityChampion AI-native engineering practices across workflows, platforms, and products, including developer tooling, code review, and CI/CDPartner with Product Management to create a consistent, high-velocity working model between engineering and product teamsCollaborate with Finance and executive peers on headcount planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment tradeoffsWork with Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and security leaders to address enterprise needs and support strategic initiativesRepresent your engineering organization in executive discussions, board-level conversations, and external forums through clear communication and transparent documentationSkillsExperience leading large engineering organizations across multiple product areas in a distributed environment, including leadership through Directors and Senior ManagersStrong technical credibility with the ability to engage senior individual contributors and leaders on architecture, engineering quality, reliability, and system design tradeoffsBackground building scalable frontend platforms or large-scale user-facing systems, alongside backend or infrastructure experienceDirect experience modernizing a monolithic application into modular, independently deployable architecture in production, including runtime composition decisions and migration sequencingExperience developing or scaling a design system that acts as a reliable contract between platform and product teams, with attention to versioning, testing, and documentationFamiliarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows, with a clear understanding of the difference between AI features and AI-native architectureAbility to operate effectively in a remote-first, asynchronous, documentation-heavy culture with clear written communication and sound organizational judgmentStrength in cross-functional leadership, including work with executive stakeholders on business cases, investment planning, customer requirements, and balancing innovation with operational stabilityBenefitsBenefits to support your health, finances, and well-beingFlexible Paid Time OffTeam Member Resource GroupsEquity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase PlanGrowth and Development FundParental LeaveCompany OverviewGitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://about.gitlab.com.