Senior Director, Production and Tenant Platform Engineering

Responsibilities: Lead the foundational engineering teams responsible for the reliability, scalability, and lifecycle of the GitLab platform across SaaS and self-managed environments. Define the unified platform strategy and oversee production outcomes, including incident management and cloud efficiency.

Requirements: Requires extensive experience leading large, distributed engineering organizations and a deep track record of owning critical production systems at scale. Must possess strong architectural judgment regarding cloud-native platforms and the ability to lead teams through significant organizational change.

Key skills: Executive Engineering Leadership, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Incident Management, Capacity Planning, Cloud Cost Optimization, Multi-tenant SaaS, Strategic Architectural Judgment, Change Management, Observability, Fleet Management, Network Infrastructure, Operational Excellence

Keywords: DevSecOps, SaaS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure As Code, Cloud Compute, Observability, Multi-tenancy, Omnibus, OAK, AI Gateway, ClickHouse, OpenBao, Fleet Management, Network Edge, Incident Response, Traffic Management, Capacity Planning, Distributed Systems, Cloud Efficiency, Platform Architecture, SRE, Production Engineering, Tenant Experience, Self-healing Frameworks, Modular Services