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Salary: USD 279,000 - 349,000 / annual
GitLab is seeking a Senior Director to lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a premium single-tenant SaaS offering for enterprise customers in regulated industries and the public sector. You will oversee a high-performing organization of managers and engineers who own the entire lifecycle of dedicated and cellular platforms, including orchestration, integrations, resilience, incident response, switchboard APIs, public sector compliance, and enterprise customer migrations.
Your mission is to scale GitLab Dedicated toward aggressive growth targets, ensuring enterprise customers experience full platform capabilities with dedicated infrastructure, compliance certifications, and enterprise-grade SLAs in isolated environments. As a high-impact executive leader, you will define strategy for single-tenant and public sector SaaS platforms, drive critical infrastructure investments, ensure FedRAMP and compliance operational readiness, and build switchboard and migration capabilities for seamless customer transitions.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, ensuring platform scalability and convergence with GitLab's cellular architecture
- Partnering with Product and executive leadership to deliver growth targets, focusing on platform reliability, faster customer onboarding, infrastructure cost efficiency, and self-service administration
- Leading engineering teams across five focus areas: Platform Orchestration & Integrations, Core Features/Resilience & Response, Switchboard & Control Plane, Public Sector Platforms & Compliance, and Enterprise Migrations & Import Tooling
- Delivering GitLab Dedicated for Government, including AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations and audit readiness, air-gapped isolation, and public sector feature delivery
- Making enterprise migrations predictable and low-disruption through self-service tooling and guided workflows
- Hiring, coaching, and scaling engineering managers across distributed teams, incorporating AI-enabled workflows
- Partnering with Product, Security, and Customer Support to keep customer commitments, architecture, and investments aligned
Requirements:
- Led engineering organizations running enterprise single or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale
- Demonstrated measurable improvements in production reliability, reduced toil, or lowered infrastructure costs on platforms you owned
- Deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services that deploy and scale independently across cloud environments
- Experience delivering and operating enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud
- Led organizational changes, including adopting AI-enabled workflows that raise engineering system efficiencies
- Ability to translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps
- Leadership style emphasizing ownership, speed with quality, and focus on customer outcomes
