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Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale:Git
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is guiding a small team of deeply specialised engineers through long horizon work on Git itself, mostly in writing, while building a culture of rigour and ownership.
You lead best by making great engineers greater, and you would rather move work forward in a well argued document than in a meeting. Here you guide senior and staff engineers on the Git version control system itself, balancing upstream open source work with GitLab's needs while scaling something the whole software world depends on. If long horizon problems, quiet technical rigour, and building real engineer ownership are what you love, this team was built for you.
Needs
- managing senior engineers
- setting technical direction
- clear written communication
- engaging with systems code
- growing careers
- cross team partnership
Rewards
- long game strategy
- platform longevity
- mentoring specialists
- foundational infra work
- git community
Demands
- leading through ambiguity
- long horizon patience
- structured technical debate
- async multi-timezone work
- community review cycles
Grows
- coaching for ownership
- reasoning from fundamentals
- ruthless prioritising
- hiring specialists
Values
- ownership and accountability
- technical rigour
- upstream transparency
- craftsmanship
- earned trust
Drains
- mailing list threads
- performance management admin
- endless async coordination
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