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# Director of Engineering, Platform & AI Productivity

- **Company:** GitLab
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Salary:** €180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Gitlab, Git
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e7e6b732f4f610ea3ffa16899cc3334e0

## About the Role

GitLab is hiring for a senior leadership role overseeing Git Gitaly Operations, Nonlinear Productivity, and Platform Staff. The role involves building and guiding a small senior team, applying AI-assisted tooling, and ensuring reliable, scalable platform operations across multiple deployment models.

The ideal candidate has a proven background in production reliability, incident management, and cross-team collaboration with a focus on measurable productivity improvements at scale.



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