279K–349K USD / year
Senior Director, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms
Engineering managerRemote — Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Published on 2026-10-21
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About this role
Lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant SaaS platform for enterprise and public-sector customers. Set platform strategy and scale reliability, compliance readiness, customer migrations, and self-service capabilities while supporting growth targets.
About the company
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.
The team
Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms organization, spanning Platform Orchestration & Integrations, Core Features, Resilience & Response, Switchboard & Control Plane, Public Sector Platforms & Compliance, and Enterprise Migrations & Import Tooling.
Stack
AWS GovCloudInfrastructure as CodeGeoDirect Transfer
What you'll do
- Own the GitLab Dedicated strategy and roadmap, including alignment with cellular architecture.
- Lead teams responsible for orchestration, resilience, incident response, Switchboard, public-sector compliance, and enterprise migrations.
- Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government, including GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP readiness, and air-gapped isolation.
- Improve reliability, onboarding speed, infrastructure cost efficiency, and self-service administration.
- Make enterprise migrations predictable and low-disruption through tooling and guided workflows.
- Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams.
- Partner with Product, Security, Customer Support, and executive leadership to align commitments and investments.
- Introduce practical AI-enabled workflows to improve organizational efficiency.
What we're looking for
- Experience leading engineering organizations operating enterprise SaaS infrastructure or cloud platforms at scale.
- Demonstrated improvements in production reliability, operational toil, or infrastructure costs.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services.
- Experience delivering and operating enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
- Experience leading organizational change, including AI-enabled engineering workflows.
- Ability to translate financial targets into engineering investments, staffing plans, and roadmaps.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Parental leave
- Growth and development fund
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits
- Team member resource groups