GitLab is a globally distributed team focused on improving deployment and upgrade experiences for customers running GitLab on various infrastructures
Job Summary
GitLab is a globally distributed team focused on improving deployment and upgrade experiences for customers running GitLab on various infrastructures.
The role involves guiding a high-performing team, partnering with Product Management, and influencing technical direction in Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and cloud-native architectures.
GitLab supports employees with benefits for health, finances, well-being, and flexible paid time off.
Matching Summary
GitLab is a globally distributed team focused on improving deployment and upgrade experiences for customers running GitLab on various infrastructures.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Kubernetes Operators expertise
Helm charts for stateful applications
Deployment tooling and upgrade orchestration
Managing distributed engineering teams
Cloud-native deployment architectures
Zero-downtime upgrade strategies
Nice-to-have
Experience with incident management
Asynchronous remote team leadership
Collaboration across Infrastructure and Support
Focus on operational simplicity
Outcome-focused engineering culture
Interest in open source and developer tools
Key Requirements
Experience leading deployment or SRE teams at scale
Strong technical knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm
Understanding of database lifecycle and schema migrations
Experience supporting enterprise or consumer-scale platforms
Ability to communicate complex technical tradeoffs