GitLab
About the Company
GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.
We're the world's largest all-remote company with team members located in more than 65 countries. As part of the GitLab team, you can work from anywhere with good internet. You'll have the freedom to contribute when and where you do your best work.
Interested in opportunities at GitLab? Join our talent community and share your information with our recruiting team: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
Listed Jobs
- Company Name
- GitLab
- Job Title
- Manager, Developer Relations Programs
- Job Description
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GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
An Overview Of This Role
As our Manager, Developer Relations Programs, you will transform how developers experience GitLab by leading our Education, Open Source, and Contributors programs globally. Your work will directly impact our dual flywheel strategy — converting users into contributors who improve our product, driving results for our customers and furthering adoption across educational institutions and open source communities. This creates a powerful business advantage: as program members become GitLab advocates, they seed future enterprise adoption while enhancing our product. Reporting to leadership in Developer Relations, you will connect community-driven product improvements with revenue opportunities, establish metrics-driven program strategies, and demonstrate how community programs deliver tangible business results.
This role requires the unique ability to balance community nurturing with commercial objectives, using data to prove how your programs create both passionate contributors and enterprise growth. Your success will fuel GitLab's mission to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world, while strengthening our position as the leading DevSecOps platform that organizations trust.
Some Examples Of Our Projects
https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributors-program/
https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/community-programs/open-source-program/
https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/community-programs/education-program/
Link to project or effort
What You’ll Do
Direct impact on GitLab's dual flywheel strategy, connecting community programs to product improvement and business growth
Lead programs with genuine influence over how millions of developers experience DevSecOps globally
Autonomy to innovate across education, open source, and contributor initiatives with executive visibility
Develop a talented team in a remote-first culture
Connect your community-building passion with measurable business impact in an open-core model
Build relationships across a global ecosystem of educational institutions and open source projects
Create visible & public contributions to GitLab's mission
Advance your career at the intersection of developer relations, education, and strategic business growth
What You’ll Bring
5+ years in developer relations, program management, or technical community building
3+ years managing teams, preferably in remote environments with global scope
Proven track record scaling developer programs with measurable growth metrics
Experience translating community initiatives into business value within an open-core model
Strong understanding of DevSecOps workflows, Git ecosystems, and contribution models
Background in educational program development or technical curriculum design
Data-driven approach to program optimization with KPI tracking and reporting
Experience with cross-functional collaboration (Product, Engineering, Marketing)
Demonstrated ability to balance community nurturing with commercial objectives
Excellent communication skills conveying technical concepts to diverse audiences
How GitLab Will Support You
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental leave
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Remote-Global
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
United Kingdom
Remote
17-03-2025
- Company Name
- GitLab
- Job Title
- Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release
- Job Description
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GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
An Overview Of This Role
As Engineering Manager, GitLab Delivery - Release, your primary responsibility is to build a world-class team and put them in the optimal position to succeed. You’ll do this by maintaining an environment where team members can thrive, and the team produces results.
You will partner with a Product Manager to connect business goals, and customer needs with sound engineering to create a scalable solution for releasing software to our customers. Your team, consisting of both Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, will be globally distributed, and you will work in an agile and sync way to improve the way we release GitLab. The team consists of Site Reliability Engineers and Backend Engineers, who must efficiently coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.
What You'll Do
Hire an incredible team that lives our values
Maintain an environment where Team Members can thrive and the team produces results
Guide Release Orchestration and Release Management
Manage agile projects
Work across sections within Infrastructure and Engineering
Manage the security, performance and scalability of the release process
Improve the quality, security and performance of the product
Work on small changes outside of the critical path
Participate in either the Release Manager rotation when needed or the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met by working with reliability engineers and development team members.
What You'll Bring
Experience leading Software Delivery, Infrastructure, SRE, or similar teams
Excellent technical background
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
Ability to deep dive into technical issues and translate them to understandable language for the business
Demonstrated teamwork in a peak-performance organization
Experience running a consumer-scale platform
Product company experience
Enterprise software company experience or startup experience
Computer science education or equivalent experience
Passionate about open source and developer tools
Exquisite communication skills
Management at GitLab
Experience in managing a remote team
About The Team
The GitLab Delivery - Release enables GitLab Engineering to deliver features in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated and self-managed customers. The team ensures that GitLab’s monthly, and patch releases are deployed to GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and publicly released in a timely fashion to self-managed customers.
The team uses Engineering Principles to guide the decisions it makes for its services. We aim to contribute the lessons we learn by delivering GitLab into the GitLab application and GitLab.com to improve the overall customer experience within GitLab in all the offerings. We collaborate closely with all the other Infrastructure teams, Support teams, and Customer Success Management teams to provide the best customer experience.
How GitLab Will Support You
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and development budget
Parental leave
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Remote-Global
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
United Kingdom
Remote
28-03-2025