Engineering Manager, Agent Foundations: Agent Execution
Core
Lead a distributed team of 10+ engineers building foundational infrastructure for AI agents to run safely and effectively across GitLab's platform.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (AI Agent Infrastructure)
Builds
Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution systems for the GitLab Duo Agent Platform
Domain
AI Agents, DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, distributed team leadership, technical judgment, hands-on engineering experience, fluency with modern AI coding tools, coaching/mentoring
Preferred skills
Experience building/deploying AI products, sandboxing, container isolation, infrastructure security, observability, reliability engineering, Python, Ruby, Go, TypeScript
Technologies
GitLab Duo Agent Platform, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI coding tools, agent harnesses
Responsibilities
Lead frontend, backend, and AI engineering teams; hire, onboard, and develop engineers; partner with product/UX on prioritization; contribute to technical design for safe agent execution; establish standards for AI tool usage; coach engineers in ambiguous technical spaces; represent the group across the AI organization
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader