Senior Engineering Manager, Design

Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.

Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.

Professional experience with JavaScript (

) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.

Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.

Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape.

Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization).

Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform.

Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability.

Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions

Upstream Studios is the full-stack experience organization for GitLab. We imagine it, we design it, we document it, we ship it—partnering across product, engineering, and marketing to deliver a continuous deployment of quality.

We integrate research, design, frontend engineering, documentation, and brand into a unified delivery pipeline, shaping how customers experience GitLab from first impression to final deployment. For more information on how we work, see the

Upstream Studios

section of the GitLab Handbook.

Remote-Gloal

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our