Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering

Company: GitLab

About the Company: GitLab, the DevSecOps platform, 50M+ users, Fortune 100-trusted, fully remote globally.

Job Category: Engineering Leadership / Executive / DevOps

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Remote — USA

Salary: Senior VP/executive-level compensation (expect $300,000+ total comp, equity included) Application Link: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8509682002

Job Description: A senior executive engineering leadership role, reporting to C-suite. You'll shape GitLab's DevOps engineering strategy and lead multiple engineering organizations responsible for the platform's deployment, reliability, and operational excellence at global scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop multiple engineering teams within the DevOps Engineering organization
• Define and drive technical strategy, engineering culture, and organizational health
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security leadership on platform roadmap
• Attract, hire, and retain world-class engineering talent globally
• Communicate engineering direction, decisions, and progress to executive leadership and board-level stakeholders
• Drive initiatives that improve deployment velocity, uptime, and operational efficiency across GitLab

Requirements:

• Extensive experience leading large engineering organizations (Director and above)
• Deep technical background in DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE
• Strong record of building and scaling distributed engineering teams
• Excellent executive communication and strategic thinking
• Experience in a high-growth, remote-first tech company strongly preferred

Benefits: Flexible PTO, equity compensation, Growth and Development Fund, parental leave, comprehensive benefits, home office support.