Engineering Manager, Developer Experience: Performance Enablement

As an Engineering Manager in the Developer Experience (DevEx) group, you will lead 1–2 teams of Backend Engineers and Software Engineers in Test. Your mission: deliver the tools, processes, and testing platforms that enable GitLab developers to ship high-quality changes faster and with confidence.

You’ll join DevEx at a transformative time. With strong executive support and cross-functional alignment, we’re evolving our internal development platform to improve efficiency and developer satisfaction. This is an opportunity to shape our roadmap, influence company-wide engineering culture, and lead a team through meaningful change.

We collaborate closely with GitLab’s Deployment and Release teams and engineering groups across the company to create seamless DevOps workflows and standardized development practices.

Current Projects

DevEx is currently working on:

• Transforming our test suites and approach to empower development teams to fully own the tests for their features
• Standardizing GitLab APIs and creating guidelines and training to provide a foundational API platform that makes it easier for feature teams to build new capabilities
• Enhancing developer environments to improve development workflow and simplify local testing

What You’ll Do  

In this role, you'll balance technical leadership with people management, to help DevEx:

• Build, coach, and support high-performing teams aligned to GitLab’s values
• Define and drive a roadmap for test infrastructure, tooling, and DevEx improvements
• Enable engineering teams to own and maintain reliable, effective test suites
• Create tools and processes that streamline local development and testing
• Improve merge pipelines and feedback loops to support faster iteration
• Identify DevEx friction points and deliver impactful, scalable solutions
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence

What You’ll Bring 

• Deep understanding and passion for designing and delivering effective testing and DevEx solutions across multiple development teams
• Strong people leadership skills with a track record of building inclusive, collaborative teams
• Experience leading teams through transformation, with the ability to identify high-impact changes and gain buy-in from your team and stakeholders
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to build and maintain relationships throughout the company

About the Team

The Developer Experience group builds the internal tools and systems that GitLab engineers use every day. We focus on delivering scalable infrastructure, intuitive processes, and smart defaults that reduce friction and boost productivity. We’re solving challenges that impact every GitLab engineer—from test reliability to API standardization—and we believe a great internal platform is key to building great products. Learn more in the GitLab Handbook – Developer Experience

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.