GitLab

Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert

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3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$166k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical authority for a specialized GitLab product group across prioritized customer opportunities.
  • Lead technical deep dives, workshops, executive briefings, trials, and Proof of Value evaluations with defined success criteria.
  • Create demos, talk tracks, reference architectures, competitive battlecards, PoV playbooks, and enablement content.
  • Partner with Account SAs and Post-Sales SAs through opportunity evaluation, handoff, first production workload, adoption, and consumption growth.
  • Provide field feedback, competitive insights, and customer requirements to Product Management and Engineering.
  • Mentor Account SAs, support product launches and early-access programs, and represent GitLab at customer and industry events.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, consulting, or software engineering with deep hands-on expertise in a relevant domain.
  • Practical customer-facing pre-sales experience with agentic and AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Experience winning technical decisions on large, complex enterprise opportunities through structured PoC or PoV evaluations and executive sign-off.
  • Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider.
  • Ability to lead technical whiteboard sessions with engineers and present business cases to executives.
  • Strong written communication and ability to turn complex topics into reusable playbooks.
  • Ability to work asynchronously across time zones with Sales, Product, and Engineering.
  • Public speaking, published technical content, open-source contributions, or relevant Kubernetes, cloud architecture, or security certifications are optional.

Benefits

  • Fully remote, distributed work arrangement.
  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
  • Team member resource groups.
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Growth and development fund and home office support.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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