Engineering Manager, GitLab
Create:Source Code
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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
- Substantial leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical competency to provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship
- A passion for version control as a whole, with a deep understanding of Git and current industry trends
- Strong cross-functional alignment and consensus-building skills to align stakeholders across Product, Design, Engineering, and Infrastructure on technical decisions and strategic priorities. Able to drive decisions and execution even when the path of least resistance would be to defer or deprioritize
- Direct production experience building applications with Ruby on Rails (or similar) and modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or Angular) at an enterprise level
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences and facilitate productive discussions in async and sync settings
- Strong alignment with GitLab's values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, DIB, Iteration, Transparency) with demonstrated examples of living these principles in previous roles
- Experience in remote-first, globally distributed organizations with a bias toward asynchronous communication and handbook-first documentation practices
- Track record fostering inclusive team cultures where engineers feel psychologically safe to contribute, take calculated risks, and hold themselves and each other to high standards
What the job involves
- The Source Code Engineering Manager focuses on people management within the engineering domain
- This means creating an environment that helps deliver a world-class repository experience for our customers
- They view their team as their primary product, developing engineers who take ownership of outcomes and hold themselves to the highest quality bar
- They maintain technical credibility across the backend and frontend disciplines and understand the work engineers undertake
- Their main responsibilities are hiring top-tier talent, ensuring the team's success, and supporting the definition and delivery of product commitments
- They actively seek opportunities to enhance productivity and efficiency
- Foster an environment that values engineering excellence from Enterprise-grade scalability, Database performance, and fault tolerance to world-class web accessibility, performance beyond Web Vitals, semantic markup and bulletproof CSS best-practices
- Hire, onboard, and develop team members who embody GitLab's values and contribute to building a peak-performance organization
- Manage and improve agile, remote, async workflows so the team can iteratively deliver platform improvements and crucial features, communicating proactively when priorities shift or blockers emerge
- Partner with Product Management, Product Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to align frontend and backend architecture with business goals and user needs. Maintain clear visibility into bug backlog health, stalled MRs, and milestone misses. Proactively address patterns of delayed execution before they require leadership escalation
- Conduct regular 1-to-1 meetings, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development opportunities
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 capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $434.9m
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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