Remote 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.
An overview of this role As an Engineering Manager at GitLab, you see your team as your most valuable product.
Your primary focus is on the people you lead—guiding them, nurturing their growth, and ensuring they have everything they need to succeed.
While you're technically credible and understand the details of the work being done, your role is about empowering a world-class engineering team, fostering their health, and driving delivery on product commitments.
In this role, you will lead the Analytics Instrumentation team, which is responsible for building tools that allow GitLab and its customers to track and measure user engagement within our platform.
The insights gained from this work are invaluable, helping shape GitLab's product roadmap and ensuring we continually improve user experiences.
Challenges in this role include growing top-tier talent, improving productivity, and working cross-functionally to achieve collaborative goals.
You'll work closely with key leaders, data scientists, product managers, analytics and software engineers while maintaining a laser focus on delivering quality work on time.
Your leadership impacts key decisions across departments based on the analytics and insights your team generates.
As a remote-first company, GitLab offers flexibility, allowing you to work from anywhere while staying connected to a global community of talented professionals.
Transparency is one of our core values, so you can see exactly what we're working on and stay updated.
In this role, you'll make a lasting impact—not only by leading a high-performing team but also by driving the evolution of GitLab through data-driven insights.
Responsibilities Manage a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture to drive high performance.
Collaborate with the product manager and key leaders across the company to create a shared roadmap and drive adoption of product usage data.
Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
Improve product quality, security, and performance.
Author project plans for epics.
Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions and product architecture.
Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices.
Actively seek and hire globally-distributed talent.
Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train the team to do technical interviews.
Contribute to the sense of psychological safety on your team.
Generate and implement process improvements.
Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team.
Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation.
What You'll Bring Exquisite communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Demonstrated progressive experience in a leadership role with up-to-date technical experience.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
In-depth technical experience with SQL and one of Python, Ruby, or Go.
Experience with product analytics solutions.
Working knowledge of OLAP systems.
Familiarity with data platforms and distributed systems.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
It's a Plus if You Have Experience working in a peak-performance organization.
Working knowledge architecting and realizing infrastructure to support data platforms.
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure technologies.
Product company experience.
Startup experience.
Enterprise software company experience.
A computer science education or equivalent experience.
Passion for open source and developer tools.
About the team The Analytics Instrumentation team at GitLab is responsible for building the tools that track and analyze user interactions on the GitLab platform.
Their work directly impacts the development of new features and optimizations across GitLab.
Thanks to GitLab's value of transparency, you can follow the team's progress through their team page.
Salary and Benefits The base salary range for this role is $131,600 - $282,000 USD.
GitLab is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
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