Fullstack Engineering Manager, Verify (GitLab CI)

As a Fullstack Engineering Manager working in the Verify stage, you'll manage a team of Frontend and Backend Engineers who develop a number of features and resolve bug on GitLab CI and make improvements to better scale the CI platform.

You'll be part of a strong leadership team of 5 other Engineering Managers, working on a key product of GitLab.com. This is a high visibility team where you're working at scale, with a lot of customer engagement and cross-function collaboration (Product, UX, etc).

Why is it great to work at GitLab?

The culture is one that is focused on transparency and your time. All these hyperlinks take you to pages in our handbook and you can go as deep as you like! When it comes to your time, GitLab is a place where work fits in around your life instead of the other way around. Working remotely and more importantly, asynchronously, means you have control over your own time. Combine this with our "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy where we don't count the number of days you take annually and you create an environment where your time is truly valued. Some of the other benefits vary by region or country, you can check those out here.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) are fundamental to the success of GitLab. We want to infuse DIB in every way possible and in all that we do. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best. With more than 100,000 organizations using GitLab, our goal is to have a team that is representative of our users.

What you'll do in this role

• Manage the Engineers on the Verify Pipeline team (we are still working out the specifics of what this team will cover, but will likely be similar to the Pipeline Execution group)
• Help your engineers grow their skills and experience
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to help inform planning and author project plans for epics
• Work with the other stable counterparts (Product leadership, UX, Quality Engineering)  of your team's quad leadership to ensure the team direction is clear and is delivering value aligned with business needs, following our cross-functional prioritization process 
• Run agile project management processes. We work iteratively and release monthly.
• Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, empowering everyone on your team to contribute ideas to retrospectives and team processes.
  • Optionally some managers choose to work on on non-critical path bugs and/or features or conduct code reviews on occasion, however this is not required for the role.
• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent
• Generate and implement process improvements. While all ideas are welcome, the Engineering Manager is expected to be the directly responsible individual (DRI) responsible for determining how a team works best together
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary
• Draft quarterly OKRs and Engineering KPIs
• Improve product quality, security, and performance

You should apply if you bring:

• Knowledge of CI/CD.  Bonus points if you have hands-on experience with CI systems.
• Experience scaling systems, or have knowledge of performance and reliability challenges at scale
• Experience improving database performance.
• An ability to operate within our view on leadership
• Technical credibility: The team works in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, VueJS, and with GraphQL. While we don't require previous development experience in these areas, it's helpful to understand how SaaS applications are built, and discuss technical rationale and reasoning with your direct reports.
• Exquisite brokering skills: you'll need to regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
• Demonstrated experience as a People Manager
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

Our hiring process for this Fullstack Engineering Manager position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page.