Engineering Manager, Foundations: Import

As an Engineering Manager for the Foundations: Import group you‘ll have the opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers pushing a core part of GitLab to the forefront of our industry. You will have your engineers’ well-being as top priority as you create the conditions for a world-class team delivering impactful results for our customers, all while continuing to seek opportunities to enhance productivity and efficiency of the team’s efforts. As necessary, you’ll drive hiring efforts to capture top-tier talent shaping the team to better support the company’s objectives and goals.

What you’ll do  

• Manage team activities and ensure project delivery.
• Support engineers' professional growth and skill development.
• Create detailed project plans for epics.
• Execute agile project management processes.
• Foster empathy and address team concerns.
• Recruit globally-distributed talent and conduct interviews.
• Cultivate a psychologically safe team environment.
• Implement process improvements to boost productivity.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings and provide feedback.

What you’ll bring 

• 3+ years of proven Engineering Management experience within as similar SaaS environment.
• Proficiency in using GitLab for project management and collaboration.
• Working knowledge of git.
• Strong negotiation skills to achieve consensus across departments.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with current technical competency.
• In-depth technical expertise in at least one core language, framework, or technology.(Rails/Ruby) 
• Familiarity with various functional areas within the team's domain.
• Additional experience relevant to the role's specialty.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Alignment with organizational values and principles.

About the team

The Import group plays a critical role in GitLab's FY26 strategy. Our primary focus is providing essential capabilities that enable seamless, reliable, and user-friendly customer migrations, both from third-party platforms to GitLab and between GitLab instances. The group is part of the DevOps Engineering team, and partners with other GitLab teams to optimize the customer migration journey. 

A typical customer looking to adopt GitLab uses many different DevOps platforms and services. Artifacts such as source code, issues, ci pipelines, and files already exist, and are updated daily. Migrating an organization from these services to GitLab is therefore substantially complex and presents both technical and UX challenges. 

Customer migration is crucial for GitLab's ability to expand in the market. It also provides an initial first impression of GitLab. It is essential it be a first-class experience, instilling confidence in customers that their data will be migrated quickly and with maximum care. The Import group is focused on making imports reliable, performant at any scale, and a great experience for all customers.

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• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.