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title: "Edge Lead"
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The [Edge Team](/handbook/edge) Lead is responsible for leading the various
initiatives that relate to improving GitLab through community contributions
and other external projects.

The Edge Lead reports to the VP of Engineering.

## Responsibilities

* Priotizes and leads the effort to triage and fix community-reported issues
* Priotizes and leads the review of community-contributed merge requests
* Continues to spend part of the time coding
* Identifies ways that GitLab can contribute to related open source projects (e.g. git command-line)
* Proposes/leads architecture improvements to GitLab
* Leads [Backstage](/jobs/specialist/backstage/) improvements
* Ensures that the technical decisions and process set by the VP of Engineering and CTO are followed
* Ensures that there is a written onboarding and process that is effective and followed
* Performs regular 1:1's with all reports
* Is available for 1:1's on demand of the report
* Uses the contributor analytics to ensure that anyone who is stuck is helped
* Delivers input on promotions, function changes, demotions and firings in consultation with the CEO, CTO, and VP of Engineering
* Defines best practices and coding standards for backend team

## Relevant links

- [Engineering Handbook](/handbook/engineering)
- [Engineering Workflow](/handbook/engineering/workflow)

---
layout: job_page
title: "Edge Lead"
---

The [Edge Team](/handbook/edge) Lead is responsible for leading the various
initiatives that relate to improving GitLab through community contributions
and other external projects.

The Edge Lead reports to the VP of Engineering.

## Responsibilities

* Prioritizes and leads the effort to triage and fix community-reported issues
* Prioritizes and leads the review of community-contributed merge requests
* Continues to spend part of the time coding
* Identifies ways that GitLab can contribute to related open source projects (e.g. git command-line)
* Proposes/leads architecture improvements to GitLab
* Leads [Backstage](/jobs/specialist/backstage/) improvements
* Ensures that the technical decisions and process set by the VP of Engineering and CTO are followed
* Ensures that there is a written onboarding and process that is effective and followed
* Performs regular 1:1's with all reports
* Is available for 1:1's on demand of the report
* Uses the contributor analytics to ensure that anyone who is stuck is helped
* Delivers input on promotions, function changes, demotions and firings in consultation with the CEO, CTO, and VP of Engineering
* Defines best practices and coding standards for backend team

## Relevant links

- [Engineering Handbook](/handbook/engineering)
- [Engineering Workflow](/handbook/engineering/workflow)

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