Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code

Git Lab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered Dev Sec Ops  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 human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

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. Git Lab 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.

Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

The Source Code Engineering Manager focuses on people management within the engineering domain. This means creating an environment that helps deliver a world-class repository experience for our customers. They view their team as their primary product, developing engineers who take ownership of outcomes and hold themselves to the highest quality bar. They maintain technical credibility across the backend and frontend disciplines and understand the work engineers undertake.

Their main responsibilities are hiring top-tier talent, ensuring the team's success, and supporting the definition and delivery of product commitments. They actively seek opportunities to enhance productivity and efficiency.

• Foster an environment that values engineering excellence from Enterprise-grade scalability, Database performance, and fault tolerance to world-class web accessibility, performance beyond Web Vitals, semantic markup and bulletproof CSS best-practices.
• Hire, onboard, and develop team members who embody Git Lab's values and contribute to building a peak-performance organization.
• Manage and improve agile, remote, async workflows so the team can iteratively deliver platform improvements and crucial features, communicating proactively when priorities shift or blockers emerge.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to align frontend and backend architecture with business goals and user needs. Maintain clear visibility into bug backlog health, stalled MRs, and milestone misses. Proactively address patterns of delayed execution before they require leadership escalation.
• Conduct regular 1-to-1 meetings, provide continuous feedback, and support engineers' professional growth through coaching and skill development opportunities.

• Substantial leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams, with hands-on technical competency to provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship.
• A passion for version control as a whole, with a deep understanding of Git and current industry trends.
• Strong cross-functional alignment and consensus-building skills to align stakeholders across Product, Design, Engineering, and Infrastructure on technical decisions and strategic priorities. Able to drive decisions and execution even when the path of least resistance would be to defer or deprioritize.
• Direct production experience building applications with Ruby on Rails (or similar) and modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or Angular) at an enterprise level.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences and facilitate productive discussions in async and sync settings.
• Strong alignment with Git Lab's values (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, DIB, Iteration, Transparency) with demonstrated examples of living these principles in previous roles.
• Experience in remote-first, globally distributed organizations with a bias toward asynchronous communication and handbook-first documentation practices.
• Track record fostering inclusive team cultures where engineers feel psychologically safe to contribute, take calculated risks, and hold themselves and each other to high standards.

The Source Code team at Git Lab owns Git Lab's core repository experience, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. This includes browsing files and folders, searching for commits, reading diffs between revisions, and assisting collaboration by supporting performant and accessible web solutions for Git primitives. Our roadmap includes user experience improvements to existing features, as well as enhancing the maintainability,…