Senior Engineering Manager, Design

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Lead, mentor,and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site.
• 2
  Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape.
• 3
  Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization).
• 4
  Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform.
• 5
  Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability.
• 6
  Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions
• 7
  Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• 8
  Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.
• 9
  Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system.
• 10
  Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale.
• 11
  Professional experience with JavaScript ( Vue.js ) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• 12
  Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
• 13
  Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• 14
  Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
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  Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
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  Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
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  Passion for open source and developer tools, with a commitment to GitLab's values, inclusive culture, and high-performance expectations.

Requirements

• Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.
• Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system.
• Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale.
• Professional experience with JavaScript ( Vue.js ) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions What you'll bring Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• 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 have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .

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