Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code

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.

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.

The

Source Code team

at GitLab owns GitLab's core repository experience, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. This includes browsing files and folders, searching for commits, reading diffs between revisions, and assisting collaboration by supporting performant and accessible web solutions for Git primitives. Our roadmap includes user experience improvements to existing features, as well as enhancing the maintainability, accessibility, and performance of our offering and rethinking what an AI-native workflow looks like. We are shipping enhancements to how large binaries are handled and discovering and adapting version control workflows for teams using AI-assisted development tools. Our roadmap also includes technical initiatives like database scaling efforts, performance projects, and several initiatives to address technical debt. We are a distributed team spanning AMER and EMEA time zones, currently consisting of 4 frontend engineers, with a near-term evolution toward a mix of 4-6 backend and frontend engineers across all geographies as we refine our technical scope and improve efficiency. We interact closely with the other Source Code team and others like Gitaly (responsible for Git fundamentals), Data Stores, and Code Review to deliver cohesive experiences. For more on how we work, see

Team Handbook Page

and

Category and Direction Page