Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity

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About the role

Senior Engineering Managers at GitLab own outcomes for a defined engineering domain, build and grow the team that delivers them, and are trusted to operate with significant autonomy against a clear mandate.

This Senior Engineering Manager role focuses on driving non-linear productivity by building and leading a small, hand-picked team of engineers who find and fix the highest-leverage friction points in GitLabs own SDLC

Rather than incremental team management, this is a 0 to 1 team-building mandate You will personally recruit 4 exceptional engineers, define how they work, and drive them through a root-cause, shift-left approach to engineering productivity, measured in system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, pipeline latency), not story points or activity.

You will act as a bridge between the pilot squad, engineering managers whose teams are affected by friction points, and leadership, ensuring the teams fixes deliver durable, measurable value before any of it is proposed as a permanent function.

This role reports to a VP-level engineering leader.

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