Engineering Manager, Build

About the role

The Engineering Manager for the Build team leads the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of systems that transform GitLab source code into secure, verified, and distributable artifacts. This role owns the build platform foundations to ensure component delivery is consistent, reliable, and self-service for development teams. The manager will guide the team in maintaining high-performance standards while driving innovation in build processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Build team roadmap across UBT, TUBE, and the broader build platform.
• Own delivery of GitLab distributable artifacts, including packages, container images, and cloud marketplace images.
• Drive a build-once, deploy-everywhere model across Omnibus, CNG, and future delivery targets.
• Lead centralized dependency management and coordinated dependency updates across components.
• Ensure supply chain security through SBOMs, provenance, vetted dependencies, and compliant build isolation.
• Create self-service onboarding paths with standard CI templates, documentation, and paved paths.
• Improve build quality and consistency through unified build environments and validation.
• Establish observability, dashboards, and metrics for build pipelines and platform impact.
• Partner across Delivery and adjacent teams to unblock onboarding and reduce coordination overhead.

Required skills

• Platforms Engineering
• Distributed systems
• Operational excellence
• AI tooling
• Team leadership

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

About the Company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk.