Engineering Manager, Trusted Agentic Development

Responsibilities

• Build and grow the team by hiring and developing engineers who practice agentic development, and create a culture that treats this as an open problem to solve rather than a process to enforce.
• Set direction in an undefined space by partnering with your team to shape the technical approach for validating agent-built software.
• Keep the team focused on the highest-impact version of the problem rather than the easiest one.
• Earn adoption by building relationships with engineering teams across GitLab, learning how they work with agents today, and creating a platform they choose because it makes them faster and more confident.
• Measure engineer adoption and trust through real usage, treat adopters as design partners, and use findings to prioritize where confidence is breaking down.
• Stay close to the technical work by engaging in architecture and design discussions, reviewing proposals, and keeping your judgment current as agentic development changes.
• Run the team with clear goals, direct feedback, honest performance management, and ownership of complex work from planning through completion without relying on a dedicated program manager.

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