GitLab
1001-5000 employees
About GitLab
GitLab is a comprehensive DevOps platform delivered as a single application, enabling organizations to manage the entire software development lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD, monitoring, and security. Founded in 2014, GitLab's mission is to make it possible for everyone to contribute to software development by providing a collaborative, open-source platform that supports remote work and transparency. The company offers a cloud-based and self-managed solution that integrates with various tools to streamline development workflows, improve productivity, and accelerate software delivery. GitLab is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol GTLB and serves a global customer base ranging from startups to large enterprises.
4 days ago
Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)
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Description
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.
- GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.
- More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
- The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.
- GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued.
- Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
- As Manager, Engineering, Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions), you’ll help GitLab break the linear relationship between headcount and engineering output.
- In this role, you’ll oversee the initiative’s forward-scanning work, reviewing GitLab’s software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to spot recurring friction, test durable fixes, and identify internal solutions that could become customer-facing products.
- You’ll report to the Senior Manager or Director, Nonlinear Productivity and work at the intersection of engineering, developer productivity, AI-assisted development, and product.
- You’ll build a data-backed view of where technical interventions can have the highest leverage, test solutions through prototypes, drive validated fixes into internal adoption, and help build the case for productizing the strongest outcomes.
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Requirements
- Ability to use GitLab.
- A track record of identifying and shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction.
- Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building the roadmap rather than executing one handed down.
- People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity.
- Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly.
- Product judgment to assess whether an internal tool could hold up for paying customers.
- Familiarity with agentic or AI-assisted development tooling.
- Experience moving an internal tool toward an external, customer-facing product is advantageous.
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Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave