Senior Engineering Manager, Design

GitLab

Remote
$195,000 - $240,000 usd; not specified; not specif...
Remote
Pajamas design system
Gitlab documentation site
Design tokens
Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site

Job Summary

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site.
  • Define and build the engineering practice within Upstream Studios, guiding architecture and technical decisions for the design system and docs site.
  • Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions and advocate for engineering quality.

Matching Summary

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, working across the Pajamas Design System and the GitLab documentation site.

Salary

$195,000 - $240,000 USD; Not specified; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Pajamas Design System
  • GitLab documentation site
  • design tokens
  • component architecture
  • accessibility standards
  • contribution models
  • docs-as-code
  • multi-lingual sites
  • localization workflows
  • Vue.js
  • CI/CD practices
  • platform reliability
  • security
  • performance
  • scalability

Nice-to-have

  • AI tools
  • open source passion
  • developer tools commitment
  • inclusive culture
  • high-performance expectations

Key Requirements

  • Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams
  • Deep expertise in design systems
  • Professional experience with Git
  • Professional experience with Hugo
  • Experience building and maintaining a design system
  • Experience with multi-lingual sites and localization workflows
  • Professional experience with Vue.js
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go
  • Strong expertise in running and scaling large platforms
  • Proficiency in English language
  • Demonstrated capacity to communicate complex technical problems
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems
  • Comfort working in a highly agile development process

Work Rights

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