Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Remote, EMEA

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.

An overview of this role
As the Engineering Manager for the Developer Experience team, you will lead one to two cross-functional teams of Backend Engineers and Software Engineers in Test, driving improvements to the efficiency, reliability, and overall experience of our internal development workflows. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team is focused on transforming GitLab’s internal development workflows by equipping engineers with the right tools, tests, and interfaces to build and ship high-quality changes efficiently. As we enter a pivotal phase in our evolution, you will play a critical role in shaping our strategy and execution—driving improvements to development tools and processes, and helping to establish a strong DevEx Platform culture. With strong organizational buy-in, your leadership will be key in defining and delivering impactful roadmaps that enable meaningful, lasting change.

DevEx partners closely with GitLab’s Deployment, Release, and development teams across the organization to design and implement effective, scalable DevOps workflows.

Some examples of our projects:

• 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

• Hire and grow an incredible team that lives our values
• Define, communicate, and execute a technical roadmap for DevEx improvements
• Train and support developers to create and maintain effective tests for their products
• Build tools and processes enabling developers to test changes effectively and early
• Streamline merge processes and integration tests to provide rapid feedback to developers
• Identify bottlenecks and gaps, then prioritize effective solutions to ensure all changes meet customer expectations

What You’ll Bring

• Deep understanding and passion for designing and delivering effective testing and DevEx solutions across multiple development teams
• Strong people manager skills - we’re looking for managers who can hire and support individuals while forming cohesive teams capable of delivering on company goals
• 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

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.

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.

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