Full-Time

Engineering Manager

Organizations

Posted on 12/5/2024

GitLab

GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

Unified DevOps platform for software development

Consulting
Enterprise Software

Mid, Senior

Remote in USA

Category
Engineering Management
Software Development Management

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Degree
Experience
Requirements
  • 2+ years of experience managing software development teams, with a strong technical background.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate in a high-performance, remote work environment across multiple time zones and cultures.
  • Experience working on foundational features in a complex SaaS environment.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality results in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Alignment with our company values and a commitment to working in accordance with those values.
Responsibilities
  • Hire and manage a globally-distributed, high-performing team that lives our values.
  • Hold regular 1:1s with all members of your team, providing coaching and regular feedback around the individual’s performance.
  • Collaborate with the product manager and key leaders across the company to create a shared roadmap and drive adoption of the Organization feature.
  • Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
  • Run agile project management processes and contribute to process improvements within the team and stage group.
  • Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for GitLab.com are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working in a complex, mature application running in a large-scale environment.
  • Working knowledge of the team’s primary tech stack - Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Vue.js.
  • Used GitLab for personal or professional projects.
  • Past experience working in an enterprise developer tools company.
  • Contributed to open source projects.

GitLab offers a DevOps platform that simplifies the software development process by providing a single application for collaboration, visibility, and speed. The platform integrates various tools needed for software development, which helps teams manage their projects more efficiently without juggling multiple tools. This allows companies to focus on enhancing their products rather than getting bogged down in the complexities of builds. GitLab serves a wide range of clients, including large corporations across different industries, demonstrating its versatility. The company operates on a subscription-based model, where clients pay for access to the platform's features that support continuous integration and deployment. GitLab also provides a free trial to attract new users and regularly updates its platform to deliver ongoing value. Its goal is to streamline the software development process for organizations, making it easier for them to develop and deploy software.

Company Stage

IPO

Total Funding

$421.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

-2%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Acquiring Oxeye enhances GitLab's cloud security, appealing to security-conscious enterprises.
  • Partnership with Ooredoo Kuwait expands GitLab's influence in the telecommunications sector.
  • Potential sale to Datadog could create strategic synergies and expand market reach.

What critics are saying

  • AI-powered coding assistants like Claude pose a competitive threat to GitLab's platform.
  • Potential sale to Datadog may lead to strategic shifts misaligned with customer expectations.
  • Integration of Oxeye may distract from GitLab's core DevOps offerings.

What makes GitLab unique

  • GitLab offers a unified DevOps platform, reducing complexity in software development.
  • The platform integrates tools for collaboration, visibility, and speed, enhancing development processes.
  • GitLab's open-source model fosters continuous innovation with a large developer community.

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