Engineering Manager - Dedicated Integrations Team
About the job
- Proven track record building and owning large-scale distributed services, with the technical depth to dive into architecture and guide the team on technical strategy.
- Experience driving operational excellence and owning services running at four-nines (99.99%) service-level objectives.
- Experience leveraging artificial intelligence tooling to boost team productivity, with lessons learned from both successes and missteps.
- A history of building and managing high-performing, accountable team cultures, including managing out when necessary.
- Comfort driving complex projects to completion without relying on a dedicated Technical Program Manager.
- Experience leading distributed and remote teams effectively.
- Enable effective execution with quality and speed in partnership with the team’s Product Manager.
- Ensure 3+ nines availability of Dedicated infrastructure, while ensuring security and automating for maximum scalability and number of tenants.
- Provide clear direction and meaningful feedback, foster an environment where meaningless toil is ruthlessly automated, and enforce DevOps ownership.
- Continuously improve owned artifacts to optimize platforms for self-service production ownership by feature implementers.
- Recruit, onboard, and develop excellent and productive team members.
- Be a role model for the team by providing proofs of concept, demonstrating an agentic mindset, simplifying processes, and removing human toil; show and tell rather than only tell.
- Model incident-management best practices, lead fast resolutions and escalations, and train and codify best practices across GitLab.
- Use a data-driven approach to prioritization, impact quantification, and management of risk and technical debt; use artificial intelligence to demonstrate concepts and translate technical complexity to drive stakeholder decisions.
About the company
GitLab provides a unified DevOps platform that brings together the tools needed for software development, including code hosting, collaboration, CI/CD, issue tracking, and security, all in one application. It works by offering a single subscription-based platform where teams can plan, write, test, review, and deploy code through automated pipelines, reducing the need to manage separate tools. This differs from many competitors that require using a collection of separate products; GitLab consolidates these capabilities into one integrated solution, helping teams work more efficiently. The company's goal is to help organizations speed up software delivery and improve collaboration by simplifying the DevOps process and continuously updating the platform with new features and improvements.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 revenue hit $286.3 million, up 21%, with record gross bookings.
- Net ARR grew 42% and first orders doubled in GitLab's latest quarter.
- GitLab Flex committed over $20 million in six weeks, validating hybrid consumption pricing.
What critics are saying
- June 2026 layoffs cut 14% and exited 22 countries, disrupting execution.
- Microsoft GitHub and Atlassian own adjacent developer workflows, pressuring GitLab's platform consolidation.
- If Duo monetization stalls, AI spending becomes a cost center before FY2027 growth slows.
What makes GitLab unique
- GitLab 19.4 unifies agentic automation across CI, security, merge requests, and projects.
- GitLab Duo Agent Platform ships with governed, local, traceable AI inside enterprise workflows.
- GitLab's single-application DevSecOps stack keeps code, security, and compliance context together.
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0%SaaS stocks have gained 56.3% over the past six months, outpacing the S&P 500's 12% rise. Still, StockStory says AI is eating into the profits of software firms with low switching costs, so only the strongest will last. It favours GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB), valued at $8.66 billion. Revenue grew 25.9% a year over two years, annual recurring revenue rose 23.3% in the last year, and gross margin is 85.9%. The stock trades at $50.42, or 7.8x forward price-to-sales. It is wary of two others. Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), worth $9.90 billion, posted billings growth of 14% and flat operating margin. Wix (NASDAQ:WIX), worth $3.00 billion, saw billings growth of 13.9% and a 17.5 percentage point drop in operating margin.
GitLab has announced new capabilities for what it calls a "governed software factory", aimed at helping organisations deploy AI-generated software whilst managing risk and cost. The platform now includes goal-driven workflows that automate progression across the software development lifecycle, reducing handoffs between stages. Key additions include GitLab Artifact Central, which centralises containers and packages alongside source code, and GitLab Dependency Firewall, which blocks malicious or non-compliant packages before they enter builds. GitLab Secrets Manager, now generally available, secures credentials in one location. The platform will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and 5.1 models for security workflows. New Impact Analytics tools show AI investment costs and outcomes by team and model. GitLab reports active users of agentic software development grew 200% year-over-year over the past three months, with over 70 million developers using the platform.
GitLab reported Q2 revenues of $286.3 million, up 21.3% year-on-year and exceeding analyst expectations by 4.8%. The company delivered strong billings results and EPS guidance for the next quarter. Chief executive officer Bill Staples highlighted record gross bookings and net annual recurring revenue growth exceeding 40% year-on-year. He noted that as AI drives more software creation, GitLab's platform provides increasingly valuable context, security, governance, and control for human and AI agent collaboration. The DevSecOps platform provider's shares rose 3.3% following the earnings announcement. The quarter was part of a strong performance across the software development sector, where 12 tracked companies collectively beat revenue estimates by 3.2%. GitLab operates with an all-remote workforce and provides tools helping development, operations, and security teams collaborate to build and deploy software.
GitLab went public in October 2021 at $77 per share, valuing the company at roughly $11 billion. Sound Ventures, the investment firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, backed GitLab six years earlier during its $1.5 million seed round in July 2015. Khosla Ventures led that early financing, with Joe Montana's Liquid 2 Ventures also participating. At the time, GitLab had fewer than 10 team members and was still developing its software development collaboration tools. GitLab's shares closed at $103.89 on their first trading day, giving the company a market value of $14.9 billion, according to Reuters. However, neither GitLab nor Sound Ventures disclosed the size of the firm's investment or when shares were sold, making it impossible to calculate Kutcher's actual return.
GitLab has released version 19.4, introducing agentic automation tools alongside Model Context Protocol server tools in public beta under its GitLab Duo Agent Platform. The new tools allow agents to automate tasks across continuous integration and continuous delivery, merge requests, work items, vulnerabilities, and projects, all governed by tool-level rules. GitLab has made its Credits usage visibility feature generally available. The company also announced that its new GitLab-hosted open-weight models can deliver up to four times more calls per credit whilst maintaining performance comparable to frontier models.