Engineering Manager, SSCS: Supply Chain
GitLab
Bangalore, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- Required: Over 3 years of experience leading backend product engineering teams in security/DevOps.
- Role: Engineering Manager for GitLab’s Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) Add‑On team.
- Benefit: Flexible Paid Time Off.
- Benefit: Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Work model: Fully remote worldwide hiring.
- Notable requirement: Ability to hire and grow distributed backend/security engineers.
Role overview
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide GitLab’s dedicated Software Supply Chain Security (SSCS) Add-On engineering team as it develops core capabilities including Dependency Firewall, Build Provenance, Malicious Packages detection, and Artifact Signing. This founding management role will shape how the team works, partner closely with the Staff Backend Engineer, Product Manager, and SSCS stage leadership, and turn a defined roadmap into steady, high‑quality delivery for enterprise customers with strict security and compliance needs.
Responsibilities
- Guide a backend engineering team building the SSCS Add-On across dependency enforcement, build provenance, malicious package detection, and artifact signing.
- Drive engineering delivery for general availability milestones by aligning sequencing, scope, and dependencies with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
- Develop the team by partnering with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, interview design, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
- Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations that enable growth and clear expectations.
- Advance engineering quality by monitoring cycle time, defect rates, and test coverage, and by addressing risks early.
- Coordinate quarterly planning and roadmap tradeoff discussions with SSCS stage leadership and Product.
- Work with Finance and other partners on headcount pacing and team planning as the Add‑On scales.
- Represent the SSCS Add‑On team within stage leadership discussions and help ensure strong communication across functions.
Requirements
- Over 3 years of experience guiding backend product engineering teams in security, DevOps, or platform engineering environments.
- Ability to hire and grow backend or security engineers in distributed team environments, with practical understanding of the talent landscape for these roles.
- Technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions involving package registries, CI/CD pipeline security, and signing infrastructure.
- Experience managing predictable delivery across multi‑quarter product roadmaps and managing cross‑team dependencies.
- Comfort working in an asynchronous, documentation‑driven organization with clear written communication.
- Familiarity with supply chain security, artifact management, or compliance‑focused product areas, or transferable experience from related domains.
- Working knowledge of concepts related to frameworks and ecosystems such as SLSA and Sigstore.
- Ability to build credibility with engineers, product partners, and customer‑facing stakeholders through clear judgment, coaching, and teamwork.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Additional details
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, serving over 50 million registered users and more than 50 % of the Fortune 100.
- The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, expecting all team members to incorporate AI into daily workflows.
- High‑performance culture driven by GitLab values, continuous knowledge exchange, and a focus on collaboration and innovation.
- The SSCS Add‑On team operates within the Software Supply Chain Security stage, delivering security features for regulated‑industry customers.
- The role reports to the SSCS Senior Engineering Manager and partners directly with the Staff Backend Engineer and Product Manager.
- Team works asynchronously across regions and is fully remote, with location‑based eligibility requirements handled by Talent Acquisition.
- GitLab welcomes candidates with varying experience levels and encourages applicants from underrepresented groups to apply.
- Equal opportunity employer with comprehensive EEO policies and accommodations for disabilities.
- Recruitment privacy policy is provided; candidates can review it during the hiring process.
- Reference to the Team Handbook Page for more information on related team interactions.