Engineering Manager - Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)

GitLab
Bengaluru
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["People management","High-ambiguity execution","Technical evaluation","Product judgment","Cross-functional partnership","Documentation"]

Help break the linear relationship between headcount and engineering output by scanning GitLab’s software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify recurring friction. Build a data-backed view of where technical interventions have the highest leverage, prototype durable fixes, and drive adoption across teams. Manage or operate as a hands-on working manager for a small team, and partner with product to productize the strongest, customer-ready outcomes.

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GitLab
GitLab
2 months ago

Engineering Manager - Nonlinear Productivity (Friction Elimination & Solutions)

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Job Summary

Help break the linear relationship between headcount and engineering output by scanning GitLab’s software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify recurring friction. Build a data-backed view of where technical interventions have the highest leverage, prototype durable fixes, and drive adoption across teams. Manage or operate as a hands-on working manager for a small team, and partner with product to productize the strongest, customer-ready outcomes.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Survey internal software development lifecycle and code-generation workflows to identify structural friction early and prioritize interventions.
  • •Evaluate build, buy, and adapt options, including agentic and AI tooling, balancing cost, risk, and durability.
  • •Stand up prototypes and review architecture to validate fixes against target metrics before broader investment.
  • •Hire and manage a small high-caliber team (or act as a hands-on working manager) with a focus on talent density.
  • •Drive validated fixes from prototypes into internal adoption and build the case for productizing durable outcomes.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityLearning BudgetPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Ability to use GitLab.
  • •Track record shipping technical fixes for developer productivity, continuous integration and continuous delivery, or platform friction.
  • •Comfort operating with high ambiguity and no existing backlog, building a roadmap rather than executing an existing one.
  • •People management experience, including in a small-team or working-manager capacity.
  • •Technical depth to evaluate and prototype solutions directly, with product judgment to assess customer readiness.
Skills:People managementHigh-ambiguity executionTechnical evaluationProduct judgmentCross-functional partnershipDocumentation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Continuous integrationContinuous deliveryAI-assisted developmentAgentic tooling

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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