Senior Director, Production and Tenant Platform Engineering

• Lead a Unified Platform Strategy: Define and execute a cohesive roadmap that aligns Production Engineering with Tenant Experience.
• Drive Operational Excellence & Reliability: Maintain deep accountability for GitLab’s production outcomes through incident management, alert efficacy, and service-level reliability.
• Scale Engineering Leadership: Manage a senior management team, coaching them on performance, hiring, team structure, and execution.
• Evolve the Platform Architecture: Guide the technical evolution of the platform, optimizing fleet management and cloud utilization.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Engineering Directors, Product Leaders, and Reliability/Delivery teams to align platform investments with business priorities.
• Translate Strategy into Execution: Convert broad organizational goals into actionable roadmaps.
• Build the Future of GitLab Operations: Champion initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve developer/operator experience.

• Executive Engineering Leadership: Proven experience leading large, distributed engineering organizations within complex, high-scale environments.
• Deep Production Expertise: Experience owning critical production systems with knowledge in incident response, traffic management, capacity planning, and cloud infrastructure.
• Platform Engineering Acumen: Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems, containerized and Kubernetes-based platforms, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strategic Architectural Judgment: Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and provide clear direction.
• Change Management: Experience leading teams through significant growth or organizational change.
• Commitment to GitLab Values: Strong alignment with values such as ownership and speed with quality.
• Operational Focus: Proven ability to improve system reliability, reduce toil, or optimize infrastructure efficiency.

Pay range: $168K - $285K