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An overview of this role

The Engineering Manager, Digital Experience will lead the technical development and management of the site, ensuring high performance, scalability, and alignment with business goals. They oversee architecture, code quality, and problem-solving while managing and mentoring the development team. They collaborate with marketing and other stakeholders, handle project management, and contribute to strategic planning and continuous improvement of the website. They are a part of the Digital Experience team, and report to a Director, Digital Experience.

You can find more details about our roadmap here: 

• https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/digital-experience/ 

Some examples of our projects: 

• https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/marketing/digital-experience/-/epics/386 

What You’ll Do  

• Lead a high-performing team of engineers to implement and bring GitLab’s web strategy to life through quality, on-time coding and development
• Code and implement high quality technical and engineering work for complex web projects, including troubleshooting and problem solving, communicating with stakeholders and team members, reporting on outcomes.
• Lead and scope major cross-functional projects; including defining business needs, navigating sometimes conflicting priorities to deliver the best business outcomes and making recommendations on the best course of action.
• Initiate longer-term initiatives that will impact the efficiency of the team, the quality of output and reducing technical debt, - including introducing new processes and solutions.
• Coach team on engineering and web development best practices, complex problem solving and modeling stakeholder engagement.
• Provide technical and functional knowledge representing Digital Experience and web development as a subject-matter expert with stakeholders across organizations.

What You’ll Bring 

• 5-7+ years in a web development engineering role in a B2B or enterprise software marketing organization; 5+ years experience managing a team of engineers
• Advanced technical expertise and proficiency in web development and related web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Vue.js
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and partnering with stakeholders outside of Engineering, including Marketing, Product and leadership teams
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose solutions
• Demonstrated ability to coach and lead a team of direct reports, including hiring, development and growth and driving a culture of high performance
• Experience with diagnosing and solving performance and optimization problems and an orientation to improvement and iteration; modeling a service-focused, solution-oriented mindset
• Experience leading team to work in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process

About the team

Our team leads the GitLab’s digital marketing platform, or simply the “Marketing Site” refers to https://about.gitlab.com. We own the following repositories:

• Buyer Experience
• GitLab Blog
• Navigation
• Slippers Design System

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 budget 
• 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.

About the team

The Create:Remote Development team focuses on building cloud-based solutions to empower teams to build and deliver software more efficiently. The team focuses on two main areas: Workspaces and WebIDE. These tools allow developers write, build, test, and debug code without needing to set up a local development environment taking away the hassles we’ve all been through with setting up and configuring complex environments.

The team is made up of experienced Engineers who care about contributing to the developer ecosystem; located across different time zones, async communication and manager of one is core to how we continue to deliver value to users. The Create:Remote Development team cares deeply about GitLab’s core values and has principles that align with those values. We aim to fight for the user, question everything, embrace the challenge that is Software Development, lean into discomfort as an expected part of this process, keep the fun in the team and measure what matters. The team cares deeply about contributing to the GitLab community and the developer ecosystem as a whole.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will primarily work on our Workspaces offering which provide remote development solutions which enables developers to quickly spin up developer sandboxes. You'll work closely with other experienced team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning. Your role is key in shaping our product offerings and roadmap as an Engineer building tools that enable other Engineers to work efficiently and increase productivity without the hassles that maintaining a local development environment comes with. With the recent GA release of Workspaces earlier in the year, you’ll be able to contribute towards making this a loveable product. Some items on our roadmap you’ll help contribute to include supporting building and running containers in a workspace, multiple editors like JetBrains and JupyterLab, implementing Shared Workspaces which could improve pair programming and troubleshooting. True to our transparency core value, you can find some of the items on our next maturity level here: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/9190.

What you’ll do 

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews
• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems for remote development environments.
• Collaborate with other Senior+ Engineers, Product Manager or Product Designer to contribute to architecture and technical design discussions, providing insights into best practices and emerging trends in remote development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production and development environments.
• Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices with the latest advancements in cloud platforms, orchestration frameworks, and the CNCF landscape.

• Mentor and support junior team members as you grow, sharing your knowledge and expertise to contribute to their growth
• Participate in agile development practices, including planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team

What you’ll bring 

• Strong experience with Kubernetes or other orchestration platforms. Including but not limited to building applications on top of Kubernetes, setting up and managing production-level clusters.
• Proficient in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Deep understanding of the CNCF landscape and its various components (e.g., containers, cloud platforms, orchestration frameworks, observability tools).
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Ruby or Go preferrable).
• Proficiency with Relational Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• An ability to work across the infrastructure-backend stack - cloud, kubernetes, containers, backend, linux - to solve problems.
• An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience in these areas; 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.

An overview of this role

As a Payroll Analyst at GitLab, you will work closely with other members of the Payroll team in handling our US payroll. You will report to the Payroll Manager and work fully remote within the Americas region. If you have 3+ years of public company payroll experience and proven to be self-motivated, tech-savvy, and able to deliver results in a fast-paced environment, this position may be the right fit for you. 

What you’ll do

• Process full-cycle US payroll on a semi-monthly cadence for 1,100+ (and growing) team members across 49 states in addition to off-cycle payroll runs (as needed).
• Assist new hires with payroll onboarding requirements. 
• Process final payments for terminated team members while complying with state laws.
• Responsible for ensuring data integrity across multiple disparate systems (e.g. Workday HCM, ADP Workforce Now, Fidelity).
• Process benefit deduction changes and ensuring 401(k) changes are updated accordingly.
• Apply funding for 401(k) contributions and perform reconciliations.
• Partner with various departments such as Stock Admin, People Operations, Benefits, Accounting, and Internal Audit to achieve cross-functional objectives.
• Assist the Accounting team with month-end and year-end matters.
• Assist with compliance related matters such as but not limited to multi-jurisdiction tax withholdings, garnishments, reconciling payroll data, reviewing timesheets for non-exempt team members, etc. 
• Register for new state and/or local tax jurisdictions.
• Research and resolve tax notices from government agencies.
• Responsible for Washington and Ohio worker compensation insurance on an annual and quarterly basis.
• Analyze and detect opportunities for improvement and suggest scalable processes and/or best practices.
• Create and/or maintain documentation as it relates to payroll processing, operational procedures, compliance, and other payroll-related matters.
• Provide exemplary support to our US team members by responding to inquiries on an almost daily basis.
• Assist with year-end payroll activities such as but not limited to payroll reconciliations, W-2 review, outstanding tax related matters, etc.

What you’ll bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, and/or Accounting.
• Minimum of 3+ years of relevant and progressive payroll experience in a public tech company.
• ADP Workforce Now experience required; Workday HCM experience is a plus.
• Basic understanding of accounting, taxation, and finance concepts as it relates to payroll.
• Knowledge in California payroll laws and regulations required.
• Proficiency in utilizing Google Suite and Microsoft Excel.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to think critically and outside the box. 
• Ability to work independently with a team first mentality.

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 budget 
• 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.

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.