Senior Distinguished Engineer
Senior Distinguished Engineer Roles at GitLab
Senior Distinguished Engineers are recognized experts in multiple technology domains relevant to GitLab, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization and throughout the company at large. They are responsible for helping shape the future direction of the organization, assisting management establish strategic roadmaps, driving priorities to meet objectives, and make scalable and sustainable architectural decisions of strategic projects. They also have a strong track record of growing and influencing others, working with all levels of senior and executive leadership, and fostering the psychological safety and happiness of members of their team. This role reports to Senior Director, Engineering or Director, Engineering of their sub-department.
Job Grade
The Senior Distinguished Engineer is a grade 11.
Requirements
- Extends that of the Distinguished Engineer requirements
Responsibilities
Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
- The Senior Distinguished Engineer role acts as the individual equivalent of a Senior Director, Engineering
- Extends that of the Distinguished Engineer responsibilities
- At this level the Senior Distinguished Engineer’s minimal sphere of influence is across multiple sub-departments if not across their entire department
- Generate technical and process improvements
- Drive innovation within Engineering
- Identifies the balance between the immediate and long term impact of technical direction and guides the organisation to execution in this balance
- Be a technical, architectural, and career development mentor for other backend engineers
- Author architecture documents for epics, coordinate the interaction between architectural directions across the engineering organization
Career Ladder
For more details on the engineering career ladders, please review the engineering career development handbook page.
About GitLab
GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.See our culture page for more!
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