Engineering Manager - Distribution: Build

An overview of this role

As the Engineering Manager for the Distribution team, you will take overall responsibility for hiring, team management, agile project management, and the quality of this project. This position reports to the Director of Engineering, Enablement.  

Managers in the engineering department at GitLab see the team as their product. While they are technically credible and know the details of what developers work on, their time is spent hiring a world-class team and putting them in the best position to succeed. They own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to improve productivity. They must also coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals.  Some examples of our projects: 

• GitLab Operator

• GitLab Charts

• GitLab Omnibus

What you’ll do   

• Help your developers grow their skills and experience

• Author project plans for epics

• Run agile project management processes

• Conduct code reviews, and make technical contributions to product architecture as well as getting involved in solving bugs and delivering small features

• Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent

• Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to screen candidates

• Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team

• Generate and implement process improvements

• Hold regular 1:1's with all members their team

• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary

• Author project plans for epics

• Draft quarterly OKRs

• Run agile project management process

• Train engineers to screen candidates and conduct managerial interviews

• Improve product quality, security, and performance

What you’ll bring

• Exquisite communication: Regularly achieve consensus amongst departments

• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role with current technical experience

• Experience with application packaging, deployment and configurations

• Experience with Kubernetes, Operators, Helm Chart, Omnibus, Go and Cloud Native technologies, in addition to any experience required by the position's specialty

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

• Experience in a peak performance organization preferred

• Deep Ruby on Rails experience preferred

About the team

The Distribution team ensures the experience of installing and maintaining GitLab is easy and safe for everyone. It is the Distribution team's task to think about the widest variety of installation/update use-cases and provide a solution that will satisfy most needs. Distribution is there to provide the best possible experience for a user that is a novice but also a veteran when it comes to installing and maintaining software.

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 budget 

• 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.

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our  hiring page .

 

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