[Remote] Engineering Manager, Agent Foundations: Agent Execution
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. The Engineering Manager will lead the Agent Execution group, overseeing teams that build foundations for AI agents to run safely and effectively, while hiring, coaching, guiding technical design, and partnering across product, UX, and AI engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering, with each team anchored by a staff engineer
- Grow the group by hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers at every level
- Partner with product and UX to turn ambiguous problems into shipped milestones and make prioritization tradeoffs explicit
- Contribute substantively to technical design for running agents safely and effectively at scale
- Establish practical standards for the group's use of AI tools, including tool selection and configuration
- Coach engineers through ambiguity in a fast-changing technical space
- Represent the group across GitLab's AI organization and with the teams that depend on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform
Skills
- Experience managing distributed engineering teams and working through technical leads and staff-level engineers
- Technical judgment developed through hands-on engineering experience and fluency with modern AI coding tools and agent harnesses
- Ability to guide teams in applying AI to software engineering workflows and technical decision-making
- Experience delivering results in fast-paced environments with ambiguous requirements
- A commitment to coaching and developing engineers in a positive, inclusive team environment
- Experience building and deploying AI products; working with sandboxing, container isolation, infrastructure security, observability systems, or reliability engineering; or using Python, Ruby, Go, or TypeScript is helpful
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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