Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms

Remote, Canada;
Remote, Ireland;
Remote, Israel;
Remote, Netherlands;
Remote, United Kingdom;
Remote, US

Git Lab is the intelligent orchestration platform for Dev Sec Ops . Git Lab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100
* trust Git Lab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. Git Lab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

As Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms at Git Lab, you’ll focus on building and supporting a high-performing team that keeps our platforms secure, reliable, and scalable. Your primary responsibility is to hire, coach, and develop team members, and to create an environment where they can do their best work while delivering strong results.

You’ll partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders across Git Lab to translate business goals and customer needs into resilient infrastructure platforms that power all our offerings, including , Git Lab Dedicated, and self-managed deployments. You and your globally distributed team will work in an agile and asynchronous way to evolve how Git Lab operates core platform components, improve system reliability and performance, and support new product capabilities at scale.

In this role, you’ll balance hands‑on technical leadership with people management. You’ll guide architecture and design discussions, help your team navigate complex tradeoffs, and ensure we operate Git Lab with a strong focus on security, performance, and availability. You’ll also be part of the Incident Management on‑call rotation, collaborating with reliability engineers and development teams to meet availability goals and continually improve how we respond to and learn from incidents.

• Hire, lead, and support a high‑performing Infrastructure Platforms team, creating an environment where Git Lab team members can do their best work and deliver strong results.
• Connect business goals and customer needs with sound engineering by partnering closely with Product Managers and other Engineering Managers to define and deliver scalable infrastructure platforms.
• Own agile delivery for your team, including planning, prioritization, and execution of projects that improve how we operate , Git Lab Dedicated, and self‑managed offerings.
• Guide the security, reliability, performance, and scalability of core platform components, working with your team to design, review, and iterate on solutions.
• Collaborate across Infrastructure Platforms, other Infrastructure groups, Support, and Customer Success to ensure our platforms meet the needs of teams that run and support Git Lab.
• Dive into technical discussions and reviews, helping to unblock complex issues and translating technical trade‑offs into clear context for non‑technical stakeholders.
• Encourage continuous improvement in how we run our services, including quality, observability, incident response, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in the Incident Management on‑call rotation, partnering with reliability and development teams to help ensure availability goals for  are met.

• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams at scale, with a track record of building high‑performing, values‑aligned teams.
• Excellent technical background, including strong infrastructure and platforms experience and familiarity with Kubernetes, Go(lang), and continuous integration…