# Senior Engineering Manager, Non-Linear Productivity

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote; Remote, Canada; Remote, Ireland; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$245,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a small team focused on driving non-linear productivity by identifying and fixing high-leverage friction points in GitLab's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

**About the Role:** As a Senior Engineering Manager at GitLab, you will own outcomes for a defined engineering domain, build and grow the team that delivers them, and operate with significant autonomy against a clear mandate.

**Responsibilities:**

- Define and refine the operating model for the non-linear productivity pilot

- Identify and prioritize opportunities for step-change fixes across the SDLC

- Build and lead a small team of engineers

- Drive root-cause analysis and shift-left thinking

- Collaborate with engineering teams and leadership to ensure fixes deliver measurable value

**Requirements:**

- Track record leading small, high-autonomy engineering teams

- Deep understanding of CI/CD and build systems

- Demonstrated root-cause instinct and a focus on talent over headcount

- Comfort operating under metrics-driven accountability

- Strong executive-level communication

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience with agentic or AI-assisted development workflows

- Prior experience running a defined-window pilot or 0 to 1 initiative

- Familiarity with GitLab's CI/CD internals

**Salary Range:** $190,000-$245,000 USD

**Benefits:**

- Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD
- build systems
- root-cause analysis
- shift-left thinking
- metrics-driven accountability
- executive-level communication

### Nice to have
- agentic or AI-assisted development workflows
- pilot or 0 to 1 initiative experience
- GitLab's CI/CD internals

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