GitLab

Senior Professional Services Engineer - Japan

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2 months ago
Remote, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver GitLab Professional Services engagements, including installation, migration, training, and advisory services.
  • Plan and execute deployments ranging from single-node Omnibus installations to large reference architectures.
  • Lead migrations from multiple source systems to GitLab SaaS or self-managed GitLab.
  • Partner with Engagement Managers and Project Managers to improve delivery consistency and processes.
  • Advise customers by translating goals and constraints into practical implementation plans.
  • Collaborate with GitLab product and engineering teams to resolve customer issues and share product feedback.
  • Mentor Associate and Intermediate Professional Services Engineers and help remove technical blockers.
  • Manage multiple customer engagements as a primary engineer or lead providing oversight to other engineers.

Requirements

  • Professional exposure to one or more infrastructure as code or configuration as code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Puppet, or Chef.
  • Professional exposure to two or more cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience using, deploying, or configuring GitLab, including a solid understanding of Git and source control workflows.
  • Experience delivering customer-facing installation, migration, training, and advisory services across GitLab’s feature set.
  • Ability to independently manage projects and lead or provide direction to Professional Services Engineers on complex engagements.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills for customer collaboration, status updates, and consensus building.
  • Ability to identify root causes, propose options and tradeoffs, drive issues to resolution, and balance multiple engagements.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote organization through clear written communication, documentation, and asynchronous collaboration.
  • Must be located in Japan and have full working rights in Japan.

Benefits

  • Fully remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave
  • Must be located in Japan with full working rights in Japan

Categories

Solutions Engineering
GitLab

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GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks across the software lifecycle. Agents handle code generation, security analysis, code review, CI/CD troubleshooting, and custom workflows — while teams maintain control through enterprise governance. Build what's next with us. Explore open roles and join our talent community: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/