Engineering Manager, Create:Source Code

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. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role 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. What you’ll do 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 GitLab'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. What you’ll bring 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 co ... (truncated, view full listing at source)