Engineering Manager, Verify: Pipeline Execution

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.