Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code

Role overview

Engineering Manager for Create:Source Code within GitLab’s Source Code engineering domain. You’ll lead people management and help deliver a world-class repository experience by building and scaling a high-performing engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Foster engineering excellence across scalability, database performance, fault tolerance, and world-class web accessibility and performance.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers who embody GitLab’s values and take strong ownership of outcomes.
• Manage and improve agile, remote, async workflows to enable iterative delivery of platform improvements and key features.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Management, Product Design, and other engineering teams to align frontend/backend architecture to business goals and user needs.
• Maintain visibility into execution health, including:
  • bug backlog health
  • stalled MRs
  • milestone misses
• Proactively address delivery risks and delays before they require leadership escalation.
• Run regular 1:1s, deliver continuous feedback, and coach engineers to support growth.

Requirements

• Substantial leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical competency for architectural guidance and mentorship.
• Strong technical credibility across backend and frontend work.
• A passion for version control, with deep understanding of Git and awareness of current industry trends.
• Ability to build alignment and consensus across Product, Design, Engineering, and Infrastructure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive decisions and execution even when it’s easier to defer/deprioritize.

Nice-to-haves / Preferred technical background

• Direct production experience building enterprise applications with:
  • Ruby on Rails (or similar)
  • modern frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, React, or Angular.