Manager, Engineering – Nonlinear Productivity, Friction Elimination & Solutions

GitLab

Manager, Engineering identifying and implementing solutions to enhance productivity at GitLab. Overseeing initiatives while leveraging AI tools in software development processes.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in identifying and implementing technical fixes to enhance developer productivity and streamline internal processes, with a strong focus on product judgment and team management. Proficient in evaluating and prototyping solutions, particularly in the context of AI-assisted development tooling.

Highest-signal resume keywords

GitLab ProficiencyTechnical Fix ImplementationPeople Management ExperienceAI-Assisted Development Tooling FamiliarityProduct Judgment

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Hard Skills

Technical DepthPrototyping SolutionsContinuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryRoadmap Development

Soft Skills

Comfort with AmbiguityTeam Collaboration

Industry Keywords

Developer ProductivityPlatform FrictionInternal Tool ProductizationMetrics Reporting

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Survey GitLab’s internal software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify structural friction early, and build a data-backed view of where technical interventions will have the highest leverage.
Evaluate build, buy, and adapt options for each opportunity, including emerging agentic and AI tooling, with a clear view of cost, risk, and durability.
Stand up prototypes and review architecture directly to test whether a proposed fix moves a target metric and represents a durable solution before GitLab makes broader engineering investment.
Hire and manage a small, high-caliber team, or operate as a hands-on working manager, with a focus on talent density over headcount.
Drive validated fixes from prototype to internal adoption by partnering with affected teams so solutions are relied on, used, and maintained.
Build the technical and business case for productizing internal fixes that prove durable, in partnership with product.
Document reusable learnings so successful internal fixes don’t remain tribal knowledge.
Report impact through changes in key metrics and progress on turning internal fixes into products, including a clear account of what didn’t work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Ability to use GitLab.
A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction, including problems you found before they were assigned.
Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down.
People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity.
Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, not only direct others toward them.
Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers.
Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling.
Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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