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  • Own outcomes for Git & Gitaly Operations, Nonlinear Productivity, and Platform Staff.
  • Set the technical bar across all three functions by reviewing distributed systems designs and crisis management plans.
  • Build operating rhythm and metrics to ensure predictable outcomes without relying on one-person heroics.

Distributed Systems AI-assisted Development People Management Incident Management

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Global Unlimited PTO

  • Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly, hiring engineers who can operate this infrastructure layer with strong operational judgment.
  • Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across GitLab's full deployment footprint, including incident management and root cause investigation.
  • Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS, maintaining cloud-agnostic architecture.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100 trusting the platform, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI integration.

UK Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the fullstack Switchboard team responsible for GitLab Dedicated's customer-facing control panel.
  • Hire and develop a high-performing team where team members can thrive and produce results with quality and speed.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design on the customer-facing control panel, including wireframes and UI direction.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million users and trust from more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

Americas Unlimited PTO

  • Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and related infrastructure.
  • Build a team culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership while driving execution on complex, long-horizon projects.
  • Balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, fostering strong written communication across a distributed team.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 as customers, we foster a high-performance culture driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange.

UK Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the roadmap and execution for the Geo product serving Self-Managed customers, partnering with the Product Manager.
  • Hire and develop a high-performing engineering team, with a focus on India and EMEA timezone overlap.
  • Own the reliability, correctness, and performance of Geo replication for disaster recovery.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million users and serving more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

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Americas

  • Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them, translating company priorities into a platform roadmap.
  • Coach engineering managers to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support.
  • Drive technical excellence across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling.

ClassDojo builds a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families, used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaching tens of millions globally. They are a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies, valuing ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making.

Global

  • Lead a team of around 20 engineers across backend platform, frontend platform, DevOps, architecture, accessibility, and quality assurance.
  • Set the platform technology strategy and own its execution, from cloud infrastructure to internal developer platform to AI tooling.
  • Mentor engineers and managers, providing support for role and career development.

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  • Lead a distributed engineering organization of nine teams, setting the vision and roadmap for proprietary scanners, AI-driven detection, and agentic remediation.
  • Drive architectural decisions for security detection engines and scalable scanning infrastructure while partnering with product management to prioritize customer needs.
  • Own delivery of security capabilities and represent the Security Factory in cross-functional planning, executive reviews, and customer conversations.

GitLab provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to improve developer productivity and reduce security risks. With over 50 million users and trust from more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance, AI-driven culture where all team members are expected to integrate AI into their workflows.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the design and delivery of multi-cloud cell placement and orchestration systems.
  • Build and grow the engineering team responsible for cell infrastructure.
  • Drive infrastructure cost visibility and optimization by partnering with finance and platform teams.

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Canada US Unlimited PTO

  • Define the multi-horizon roadmap for GitLab's data analytics and insights platform, balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform investment and setting clear success measures.
  • Partner with engineering leaders to shape core platform capabilities, including data pipelines, storage, and APIs, that support analytics experiences across GitLab.
  • Design a tiered analytics experience that meets customers where they are: conversational AI discovery, out-of-the-box dashboards, and custom dashboard creation.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trusting GitLab, the company fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange, embracing AI as a core productivity multiplier.

Global

  • Run the engineering org day-to-day, owning delivery across all squads, the hiring pipeline, and standards for a senior-IC team shipping fast without ceremony.
  • Manage weekly Friday demos of working software, translating business requirements into technical scope and managing cross-squad dependencies.
  • Absorb changing priorities, re-plan in hours not weeks, and keep the engineering train moving as a delivery-first leader with a show-me mentality.

TTEC Digital coaches clients to ensure employees feel valued, building the next generation of AI CX tools for global brands. Backed by TTEC (NASDAQ: TTEC), a company obsessed with customer experience since 1982, we move like an early-stage startup with enterprise scale.

Canada

  • Own end-to-end AI system layer across product and platform.
  • Drive shift from AI-powered features to AI-powered business operations.
  • Lead ~30 engineers across 4-6 teams to build intelligent workflows.

Jobber helps small home service businesses like plumbers and landscapers manage their operations through technology. With over 250,000 businesses on the platform, Jobber fosters a supportive, diverse culture focused on impact.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a small, hand-picked team to identify and fix the highest-leverage friction points in GitLab's SDLC through a root-cause, shift-left approach.
  • Define the operating model for non-linear productivity, prioritizing opportunities across flaky tests, review latency, pipeline reliability, tooling gaps, and context loss.
  • Personally recruit and mentor 4 exceptional engineers, set technical direction, and operate with metrics-driven accountability against system-level outcomes.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100 as customers, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, AI integration, and continuous knowledge exchange.

  • Own the architecture, design, and delivery for your team's platform area, turning roadmap into engineering plans that ship and hold up in production.
  • Design and build core parts of a compound AI system spanning agents, LLMs, and RAG, with a focus on reliability, evaluation, and scale.
  • Champion engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and partner with product and design counterparts to align on priorities.

Crogl builds fully autonomous AI team members for security operations centers (SOCs), helping organizations secure their digital estates. As a startup with a focus on innovation, they seek senior technical leaders to join their remote team.

Romania

  • Lead the end-to-end engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and quality of a multi-deployment email security platform.
  • Drive an AI-first software development lifecycle by integrating AI-assisted workflows into specification, coding, testing, code review, and deployment.
  • Build, mentor, and lead high-performing distributed engineering teams while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

The company develops secure software products for enterprise and critical infrastructure customers. It is a global technology organization with a remote-friendly, collaborative culture.

Global

  • Design and implement platform architecture decisions for AI CX tools.
  • Serve as the organization's problem solver, shipping code to unblock squads across the engineering org.
  • Train up engineers and set patterns through reference implementations, raising the team's overall level.

TTEC Digital is an innovation group inside TTEC (NASDAQ: TTEC), building the next generation of AI CX tools. They operate with a startup mentality backed by the scale and enterprise client base of a company obsessed with customer experience since 1982.

United States

  • Lead and grow a geographically aligned engineering organization at the director level, owning regional P&L and ensuring successful delivery of client and internal initiatives.
  • Champion adoption of AI-forward tools and AI-assisted delivery, raising both velocity and expertise across the team.
  • Set the standard for AI-forward engineering practice, using tools like Claude and Cursor with sophistication, and help the team adopt AI tools effectively.

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building AI co-workers for enterprise operations. Founded in 2009 with delivery centers in Canada, the US, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, they are a nimble, senior-led team averaging 15+ years of experience.

US

  • Lead technical architecture and engineering standards across customer-facing and operational systems.
  • Champion AI-assisted development, establishing best practices for LLMs in coding, testing, and workflows.
  • Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence through code quality, CI/CD, and operational reliability.

Koala Health aims to make managing your pet’s health simple and delightful, offering a pharmacy service for medications and supplements delivered in pre-sorted pouches. The company fosters a remote-first culture built on flexibility and trust, with a supportive, close-knit team that celebrates wins and learns fast.

US

  • Lead day-to-day engineering execution across product and platform initiatives.
  • Partner closely with the CTO on technical architecture, roadmap planning, and engineering strategy.
  • Recruit, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering organization.

Lynd Clinical is building the AI-native operating system for clinical research sites, aiming to reduce administrative burden and improve patient recruitment through intelligent software and automation. They are a fast-moving startup seeking a hands-on Director of Engineering to lead product development and grow their engineering team.

Americas Canada

  • Manage a team of frontend, backend, and AI engineers to deliver GitLab Duo Chat roadmap commitments across the DevSecOps lifecycle.
  • Partner with product and UX teams to define requirements and deliver AI features that address customer needs and improve answer quality.
  • Coach engineers through feedback and development conversations to foster growth and team performance.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trusting their platform, GitLab fosters a high-performance, values-driven culture where team members continuously exchange knowledge and embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier.

Poland

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 8-10 strong systems and backend engineers.
  • Own the vision and roadmap for the platform layer of the Bidding Platform.
  • Deliver self-service platforms with clear usage contracts for vertical teams.

RTB House is a next-generation performance demand-side platform that uses proprietary Deep Learning AI algorithms to help brands grow. Founded in 2012, it operates in 90+ markets and is private-by-design, embracing first-party advertising and innovation.