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Clean up job families for engineering IC and manager roles

Engineering Job Families

Update: 2023-04

Job families have been migrated to the new handbook site.

Engineering job families: https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/

Goals

  1. Remove duplication (examples: Backend engineer; Engineering Manager) between Engineering and Development.
  2. Align with recommended template for job families (including levels, specialties)
  3. Align on an org structure for job families, with re-use where appropriate

Proposed Structure

  • Engineering
    • Development
    • Incubation Engineering
    • Infrastructure
    • Quality
    • Support

Proposed top-level job families

The following base job families would also site directly under Engineering, using partials to make it easier to extend into each department.

  • Management
    • ...
    • ...
  • Backend Engineer
  • Frontend Engineer
  • Fullstack Engineer
  • ...

Related to: !63485 (merged)

These items are left to be addressed (thanks for identifying @nolith :

  1. job-families/engineering/engineering-management and job-families/engineering/development/management are exactly the same
  2. backend roles are defined in two places: /job-families/engineering/development/backend and /job-families/engineering/backend-engineer. Not the same content
  3. Distinguished engineer is defined in multiple places:
  4. every development role is defined at least twice, once in a general page and once in a specific page for each level (seems to be the outcome of #7892 (closed))
    1. frontend roles: /job-families/engineering/development/frontend - All of them
    2. backend roles: /job-families/engineering/development/backend - All of them
    3. fullstack roles: All: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/blob/master/sites/uncategorized/source/job-families/engineering/development/fullstack/index.html.md
Edited by Phil Calder