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An overview of this role
As the Engineering Manager for the Editor Extensions team at GitLab, you'll lead a talented group of engineers dedicated to bringing GitLab's powerful features directly into developers' preferred coding environments. You'll guide your team in building and maintaining extensions for popular IDEs and editors like VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and Neovim, ensuring seamless integration with GitLab's collaboration tools and GitLab Duo AI capabilities. In this role, you'll balance technical leadership with people management, helping your team deliver high-quality extensions while supporting their professional growth. You'll collaborate with other engineering teams, product managers, and UX designers to create intuitive developer experiences that boost productivity across multiple platforms while leveraging cutting-edge AI technology.
Some examples of our projects:
- GitLab Duo for VS Code
- GitLab Duo for JetBrains
- GitLab Duo for Eclipse
- GitLab Duo for Visual Studio
- GitLab Duo for Neovim
What You’ll Do
- Lead and manage a team of engineers building extensions for multiple editor platforms
- Drive the technical roadmap for Editor Extensions in collaboration with product management
- Ensure cross-version compatibility between extensions and different GitLab instance versions
- Foster collaboration with the Gitlab Extensions Protocols & AIGW (AI Gateway) teams
- Establish best practices for extension development across multiple platforms
- Mentor and guide engineers to grow their technical and professional skills
- Prioritize team workload and help remove obstacles to team progress
- Represent the team in cross-functional discussions and planning sessions
- Analyze user feedback and metrics to drive continuous improvement of extensions
- Manage team member capacity effectively to achieve team goals and deliver value to users
What You’ll Bring
- Experience leading engineering teams building developer tools or IDE extensions
- Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript development and some experience with Ruby
- Familiarity with extension development for at least one popular IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- Experience with REST API integration in frontend applications
- Background in managing cross-platform development projects
- Understanding of version compatibility management and its challenges
- Excellent people management and mentorship skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with Git workflows and GitLab features (nice to have)
How GitLab will support you
- 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 Fund
- 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.
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What We Do
GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive DevSecOps Platform used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission makes it clear that we believe in a world where everyone can contribute. We make that possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.
We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best.
Why Work With Us
We’ve got big ambitions to make GitLab the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform and need skilled contributors to get us there. At GitLab, your contributions shape the future of software development at a time when AI is changing the way software is built. Together, we're building the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
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