Key skills
ElasticSearchJavaScriptOpen SourceRubyVue.jsGoAIVueElasticsearchGitGitLabAgileCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- 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–this is a new function and you’ll have real influence over how it takes shape.
- Guide architecture and technical decisions for the design system (components, tokens, patterns) and the docs site (performance, reliability, infrastructure, localization).
- Help others across the organization understand the strategic value of a well-maintained design system and documentation platform.
- Advocates for engineering quality: technical debt, accessibility standards, customer issues, security, and platform reliability.
- Collaborate with Product Design and Technical Writing to translate design and content needs into scalable technical solutions
Requirements
- Experience leading infrastructure, platform, or development teams, with a track record of building high-performing, values-aligned teams.
- Deep expertise in design systems–including design tokens, component architecture, accessibility standards, and contribution models.
- Excellent technical background, including professional experience with Git, docs-as-code, Hugo, accessibility and building and maintaining a design system.
- Experience of building and supporting multi-lingual sites and localization workflows at scale.
- Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and familiarity with Elasticsearch, Ruby/Go, AI tools, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Strong expertise in running and scaling large, consumer-grade platforms, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Passion for open source and developer tools, with a commitment to GitLab's values, inclusive culture, and high-performance expectations.
Tech Stack
- ElasticSearch
- JavaScript
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Vue.js
- Go
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support