Distinguished Engineer, Core DevOps

Responsibilities

• Set and continuously refine the go forward technical direction for CI, CD
• Plan, and source code experiences, aligned against the horizontal architectural initiatives.
• Work directly with the VP of Engineering as her technical counterpart on planning, technical investment, and where the group's engineering effort should go.
• Translate GitLab's company-wide productivity, quality, and AI native engineering goals into concrete technical direction for Core DevOps, and turn into iterable roadmaps, partnering broadly across the org.
• Define what good means in measurable terms for these services, including availability, latency at p95 and p99, pipeline success rate, test reliability, data correctness, and defect escape rate, then hold designs and implementations to it.
• Maintain a clear and current picture of systemic technical risk across the group, including single points of failure, unowned critical paths, brittle coupling between CI/CD and
• Plan, scaling limits, and past decisions that now constrain the roadmap.
• Drive a prioritized plan to retire it.
• Lead the hardest design decisions hands on, writing code, prototypes, and proofs of concept where a design argument needs evidence behind it.
• Drive convergence on shared patterns, libraries, and paved paths, reducing how many different ways the same problem gets solved across the group.

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