Engineering

Senior Director, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms at GitLab

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  • Company: GitLab
  • Location: Remote (Canada, UK, US)
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Salary: $279,000 – $349,000 USD (US residents only)

About the role

GitLab is seeking a Director to lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated. This is the company’s premium single-tenant SaaS offering designed for enterprise customers in regulated industries and the public sector. You will guide a high-performing team of managers and engineers who manage the entire lifecycle of dedicated and cellular platforms. Your mission is to scale GitLab Dedicated toward aggressive growth targets while ensuring enterprise customers receive full platform capabilities, compliance certifications, and enterprise-grade SLAs in an isolated environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated, ensuring the platform scales with customer growth and aligns with GitLab’s cellular architecture.
  • Partner with Product and executive leadership to deliver on growth targets, focusing on platform reliability, faster onboarding, and infrastructure cost efficiency.
  • Lead engineering teams responsible for tenant orchestration, resilience, incident response, the Switchboard control plane, and public sector compliance.
  • Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government, including AWS GovCloud infrastructure, FedRAMP operations, and air-gapped isolation.
  • Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable and low-disruption through self-service tooling and guided workflows.
  • Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams, integrating AI-enabled workflows into daily operations.

Requirements

  • Experience leading engineering organizations that run enterprise single or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
  • A track record of measurably improving production reliability, reducing toil, or lowering infrastructure costs on a platform you owned.
  • 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.
  • Ability to translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this role is $279,000 – $349,000 USD. Please note that this range is intended for residents of the United States only and does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. GitLab offers flexible paid time off, equity compensation, an employee stock purchase plan, a growth and development fund, and parental leave.

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