Incubation Engineering Department Career Framework

Incubation Engineering Department Competencies: Intermediate

Engineering | Development | Incubation Engineering | Infrastructure | Quality | Support

Intermediates at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

• Intermediate Leadership Competencies
• Intermediate Technical Competencies
• Intermediate Values Alignment

Intermediate Leadership Competencies

Engineering

• Assumes goodwill, seeks support and clarification of requirements.
• Capable of delivering work with clear requirements.
• Constructively raises concerns.
• Communicates in a clear, timely, and effective manner.
• Capable of adapting their messaging to technical audience.
• Develops understanding of the organization structure and processes.

Intermediate Technical Competencies

Engineering

• Considers quality, security, and performance of assigned tasks.
• Works with manager and counterparts to plan and estimate, and delivers small and moderate solutions.
• Seeks guidance when blocked and iterates to a solution.
• Performs thorough reviews within their domain.

Intermediate Values Alignment

GitLab

• Adhere to the Collaboration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Results Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Efficiency Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Iteration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Transparency Competencies for this job grade.

Incubation Engineering Department Competencies: Principal

Engineering | Development | Incubation Engineering | Infrastructure | Quality | Support

Principals at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

• Principal Leadership Competencies
• Principal Technical Competencies
• Principal Values Alignment

Principal Leadership Competencies

Engineering

A principal engineer generally operates at an organizational (sub-department or stage, for example) level scope, serving as their organization’s technical lead and connecting their organization to other parts of GitLab.

Incubation Engineering Department Competencies: Senior

Engineering | Development | Incubation Engineering | Infrastructure | Quality | Support

Seniors at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

• Senior Leadership Competencies
• Senior Technical Competencies
• Senior Values Alignment

Senior Leadership Competencies

Engineering

• Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements. This applies whether interacting with team members, customers, or the wider community.
• Able to deliver work, even when given unclear requirements, within the context of their team.
• Demonstrates knowledge about how their group and stage fit into the larger business.
• Able to suggest alternative solutions to customer problems based on what they know about other areas of GitLab.
• Looks for opportunities for process improvements within their team and works with others to implement process changes.

Senior Technical Competencies

Engineering

• Contributes to the team’s understanding of quality and how it impacts the team’s domain with respect to their role.
• Able to take on large issues with vague requirements.
• Able to resolve complex challenges.
• Acts as a Coach and Mentor to others.

Senior Values Alignment

GitLab

• Adhere to the Collaboration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Results Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Efficiency Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Iteration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Transparency Competencies for this job grade.

Incubation Engineering Department Competencies: Staff

Engineering | Development | Incubation Engineering | Infrastructure | Quality | Support

Staff at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

• Staff Leadership Competencies
• Staff Technical Competencies
• Staff Values Alignment

Staff Leadership Competencies

Engineering

A staff engineer generally operates at a team level scope, serving as the technical leader for one or more of their team’s domains of responsibility.

• Helps others across the organization understand their team’s domain and technology.
• Communicates clearly and effectively with team members and stable counterparts.
• Makes responsible decisions and evaluates tradeoffs impacting their team’s domain.
• Exhibits a deep understanding of their team’s features, how customers use them, and how they fit into the larger business.
• Improves team processes.
• Recognizes good solutions and clearly explains their merits to relevant stakeholders.
• Unblocks and enables team members and counterparts.
• Participates in processes which address complex technical challenges, such as the Architecture Design Process, as a DRI.

Staff Technical Competencies

Engineering

• Has a broad skill-set with in-depth expertise in their team’s technical domain.
• Blends technical, product and design strategy, helping the team to be more productive.
• Represents their team as a domain expert when interfacing with other teams.
• Reaches beyond immediate needs, independently considering the longer-term, and is always looking beyond for ways to have a broad impact.
• Addresses challenges related to customers, quality, and security.
• Able to take on complex requirements and decompose them into a proposal of small deliverables.
• Engages in processes, such as the Architecture Design Process, to contribute to their team’s most challenging technical initiatives.

Staff Values Alignment

GitLab

• Adhere to the Collaboration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Results Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Efficiency Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Iteration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Transparency Competencies for this job grade.