Drimva

GitLab

Director of Engineering, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms

$212K–$290K

Remote, Canada +2 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026

Location
Remote, Canada
Remote, United Kingdom
Remote, United States

About the job

Leads the engineering organization and strategy for GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant SaaS platform serving enterprise and public sector customers, including its infrastructure, compliance, reliability, and migration capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Own the GitLab Dedicated strategy and roadmap, scaling the platform and aligning it with cellular architecture and customer growth.
  • Lead teams responsible for orchestration, reliability and incident response, Switchboard, public sector compliance, and enterprise migrations; maintain enterprise-grade SLAs.
  • Hire and develop distributed engineering managers and partner with Product, Security, and Customer Support on customer commitments and investments.

What they ask for

  • Leadership experience running enterprise single- or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and independently deployable modular services across cloud environments.
  • Experience delivering and operating enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
  • Evidence of improving production reliability, reducing toil, or lowering infrastructure costs on an owned platform.

Pay

$212,000 — $290,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

AWS GovCloud, Infrastructure as Code, FedRAMP, Geo, Direct Transfer

AI focus

Lead organizational adoption of AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering efficiency; team members are expected to incorporate AI into daily workflows.

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First seen Oct 22, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)