Engineering Manager, Create – Source Code
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
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Hard skills
Ruby on RailsVue.jsReactAngularGitweb accessibilitydatabase performancefault tolerancesemantic markupCSS best practices
Soft skills
leadershiptechnical mentorshipcross-functional alignmentconsensus-buildingcommunicationcoachingteam culturepsychological safetyfeedbackprofessional growth