5 months ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Conduct deep technical discovery with strategic accounts to assess platform readiness, constraints, and adoption opportunities.
- Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments involving migration, regulation, and product boundaries.
- Partner with customers and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases based on impact, feasibility, repeatability, and long-term platform value.
- Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators across source code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Architect self-managed and enterprise deployments involving runners, access controls, network boundaries, observability, AI Gateway, model connectivity, and governance controls.
- Convert recurring field patterns into reusable runbooks, templates, design notes, technical guidance, product briefs, and reference architectures.
- Contribute code, technical designs, or architecture changes upstream with Product and Engineering when necessary.
- Travel for strategic customer engagements, architecture workshops, and team coordination, with expected travel up to 50%.
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer-facing engineering roles.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to read, reason about, and contribute to production systems; Ruby on Rails and/or Go experience is preferred.
- Strong systems design and software architecture skills, including experience with APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline design, YAML, runners, and GitLab APIs.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and enterprise deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar approaches.
- Working knowledge of large language models, agentic patterns, tool orchestration, and the practical limits of AI systems in production.
- Track record of creating reusable technical assets that outlive a single engagement.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical design and architecture guidance.
- Comfort leading conversations with senior stakeholders across security, compliance, engineering, platform, and business teams in ambiguous enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Remote-global work arrangement.
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
- Home office support.
- Travel as needed, with expected travel up to 50%.
About GitLab
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.