Director of Engineering, Organizations & Cells

Overview

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

What you'll do

• Two primitives make that possible: Organizations , the tenant boundary that makes a customer's data a single addressable, portable unit, and Cells , independent GitLab instances that host those Organizations and can be provisioned on demand across clouds and regions.
• The target is a 100x increase in headroom for GitLab.com, delivered without customers ever seeing a cell.
• Same domain, same URLs, same product, a substrate underneath that scales by adding capacity rather than by negotiating with a single database.
• The boundary we are building is worth more than the scale it unlocks.
• An isolated Organization can guarantee where its data lives and what travels with it.
• That turns data residency, regional control, in-region AI and search compute, and enforceable tenant-level policy into product capabilities rather than deployment exceptions.
• It is the foundation for a class of enterprise and regulated-market offerings that a shared-instance architecture cannot support.
• We are hiring a Director of Engineering in India to lead this charter.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Go, Rust, Scala.
• Relevant academic or project background for a Director of Engineering, Organizations & Cells role.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Bangalore, India.

Skills