[Hiring] Senior Director, Dedicated Infrastructure & Platforms @GitLab

Role Description

As the Director of Dedicated Infrastructure Engineering & Platforms, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, GitLab's premium single-tenant SaaS offering for enterprise customers in regulated industries and public sector.

Your mission is to scale GitLab Dedicated from its current trajectory toward an aggressive growth target, ensuring enterprise customers experience full platform capabilities with dedicated infrastructure, compliance certifications, and enterprise-grade SLAs in an isolated environment.

As a high-impact executive leader, you will:

• Define the strategy for single-tenant and public sector SaaS platforms.
• Drive critical infrastructure investments.
• Ensure FedRAMP/compliance operational readiness.
• Build the switchboard and migration capabilities for enterprise customers.
• Cultivate a culture of operational excellence.
• Close key business and roadmap gaps.
• Lead distributed engineering teams to deliver high-availability, highly secure platform experiences.

Qualifications

• You have led engineering organizations that run enterprise single or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and cloud platforms at scale.
• You have measurably improved production reliability, reduced toil, or lowered infrastructure cost on a platform you owned.
• You have deep expertise in cloud-native and cellular architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and modular services that deploy and scale independently across cloud environments.
• You have delivered and operated enterprise offerings under strict compliance regimes such as FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud.
• You have led organizational changes, including adopting AI-enabled workflows that raise engineering system efficiencies.
• You translate financial targets into engineering investments, headcount plans, and execution roadmaps.
• You lead with ownership, speed with quality, and a focus on customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Own the strategy and roadmap for GitLab Dedicated.
• Partner with Product and executive leadership to deliver on growth targets.
• Lead the engineering teams that build and run the platform.
• Deliver GitLab Dedicated for Government, including AWS GovCloud infrastructure and FedRAMP operations.
• Make enterprise migrations to Dedicated predictable and low-disruption.
• Hire, coach, and scale engineering managers across distributed teams.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Customer Support to keep commitments aligned.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave