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About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide GitLab’s dedicated Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) Add-On engineering team as it develops core capabilities including Dependency Firewall, Build Provenance, Malicious Packages detection, and Artifact Signing. This is a founding management role focused on developing the team and establishing predictable execution for the SSCS SKU.
The SSCS Add-On team is a product engineering team within GitLab’s Software Supply Chain Security stage. You’ll report to the SSCS Senior Engineering Manager and partner directly with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
What you'll do
- Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
- Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
- Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
- Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by addressing risks early.
- Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
- Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning as the Add-On scales.
- Represent the SSCS Add-On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.
What they're looking for
- Over 3 years of experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.
- Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
- Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
- Experience managing predictable delivery across multi-quarter product roadmaps and managing cross-team dependencies.
- Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation-driven organization with clear written communication.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance-focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
- Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
- Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer-facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
Benefits, as listed
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The hot takeJeff's read on Gitlab
GitLab has put more effort into their employee marketing and policies than 99.99% of the companies we've researched over the years. Seriously, their handbook is absolutely massive.
The ONLY thing that throws me off about them is an unclear statement about their stance on what "work from anywhere" actually means. They say:
"All-remote means that each individual in an organization is empowered to work and live where they are most fulfilled."
But they also say that hey need to have an entity in your home country in order to be hired, so I'd love to know if they have a list of the countries they will hire from.