Engineering Manager, GitLab
Developer Experience: Performance Enablement
+ Equity + ESPP
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity + ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding and passion for designing and delivering effective testing and DevEx solutions across multiple development teams
- Strong people leadership skills with a track record of building inclusive, collaborative teams
- Experience leading teams through transformation, with the ability to identify high-impact changes and gain buy-in from your team and stakeholders
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to build and maintain relationships throughout the company
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager in the Developer Experience (DevEx) group, you will lead 1–2 teams of Backend Engineers and Software Engineers in Test
- Your mission: deliver the tools, processes, and testing platforms that enable GitLab developers to ship high-quality changes faster and with confidence
- You’ll join DevEx at a transformative time
- With strong executive support and cross-functional alignment, we’re evolving our internal development platform to improve efficiency and developer satisfaction
- This is an opportunity to shape our roadmap, influence company-wide engineering culture, and lead a team through meaningful change
- We collaborate closely with GitLab’s Deployment and Release teams and engineering groups across the company to create seamless DevOps workflows and standardized development practices
- Transforming our test suites and approach to empower development teams to fully own the tests for their features
- Standardizing GitLab APIs and creating guidelines and training to provide a foundational API platform that makes it easier for feature teams to build new capabilities
- Enhancing developer environments to improve development workflow and simplify local testing
- In this role, you'll balance technical leadership with people management, to help DevEx:
- Build, coach, and support high-performing teams aligned to GitLab’s values
- Define and drive a roadmap for test infrastructure, tooling, and DevEx improvements
- Enable engineering teams to own and maintain reliable, effective test suites
- Create tools and processes that streamline local development and testing
- Improve merge pipelines and feedback loops to support faster iteration
- Identify DevEx friction points and deliver impactful, scalable solutions
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
- The Developer Experience group builds the internal tools and systems that GitLab engineers use every day
- We focus on delivering scalable infrastructure, intuitive processes, and smart defaults that reduce friction and boost productivity
- We’re solving challenges that impact every GitLab engineer—from test reliability to API standardization—and we believe a great internal platform is key to building great products
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.5m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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