Director of Engineering, Workflows & Runners

GitLab is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the teams building the core primitives for Workflows and Function Runtime. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll work directly with senior and principal engineers on design and technical decisions, while also building and scaling a high-performing, values-aligned engineering organization. Salary range: $230,000-$285,000 USD.

• Proven experience leading teams building core platform or infrastructure services (workflow engines, function runtimes, control planes, high-scale microservices, or similar distributed systems). • Track record as a hands-on engineering leader who has meaningfully contributed to architecture and design. • Strong background in scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems including service decomposition, data partitioning, fault tolerance, and backpressure. • Demonstrated success operating mission-critical services in production (SLOs, on-call, incident management, postmortems, capacity management). • Experience driving cost efficiency in cloud-native environments. • Familiarity with Kubernetes, modern cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), and event-driven/async architectures. • People leadership experience managing managers and senior/staff engineers. • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 4-6+ years in engineering leadership.