Engineering Manager, Pipeline Execution

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.

An overview of this role

This Engineering Manager for our Pipeline Execution group is 100% remote.

As an Engineering Manager for our Pipeline Execution group within the Verify stage, you'll manage a team of Backend Engineers and Frontend Engineers who develop features on GitLab CI, make improvements to better scale CI as a whole, and support features like Merge Trains and Job Artifacts. While the backend works with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL and the frontend works in VueJS and GraphQL, what’s most important is to understand ways to improve upon a best-in-class CI product with a rich offering of functionality.

What You’ll Do  

• Manage and grow the Engineers in the Pipeline Execution group
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to help inform planning and author project plans for epics
• Work with other team members (also known as Stable Counterparts), such as Product, UX and Support Engineering to ensure the team direction is clear and the team is delivering value aligned with business needs
• Run agile project management processes and track project status on a regular basis. We work iteratively and release monthly.
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
• Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices. Examples might be: evaluating individual workflow during one on ones, conducting code reviews, or working on non-critical path bugs and/or features.
• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent.
• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team.
• Generate and implement process improvements that improve how the team works together and other team processes.
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
• Participate in the Incident Manager on-call rotation.

What You’ll Bring 

• Knowledge of CI/CD.  Bonus points if you have hands-on experience with CI systems.
• Experience automatic and scaling systems, or have knowledge of performance and reliability challenges at scale
• Experience improving database performance and knows where to look to understand where potential bottlenecks lie.
• An ability to operate within our view on leadership
• Technical credibility: The team works in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL 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

About the team

Pipeline Execution started as the core CI team when the Verify stage first formed. The team is made up of 8 engineers, across frontend and backend specialties. The team's mission is to make software development easier, faster, and more reliable by creating and supporting a Continuous Integration product that is performant, scalable, and lovable.

The Verify:Pipeline Execution Group is focused on supporting the functionality with respect to Continuous Integration. A key focus for the Pipeline Execution group is delivering features that achieve the outcome we track in our performance indicator.

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.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.