GitLab

Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert

GitLab
Apply
3 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom +4 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Act as the technical authority for a selected GitLab product group across discovery, architecture, trials, and Proof of Value evaluations.
  • Lead technical deep dives, workshops, executive briefings, demonstrations, and competitive evaluations that connect product capabilities to business outcomes.
  • Design product-specific Proof of Value templates, success criteria, reference architectures, playbooks, battlecards, demo environments, and enablement content.
  • Support Account Solutions Architects and Post-Sales Solutions Architects with complex product questions, integrations, objections, handoffs, adoption, and consumption.
  • Partner with Product Management, Product Marketing, and Engineering on launches, field feedback, customer requirements, early-access programs, and design-partner programs.
  • Mentor Account Solutions Architects and represent GitLab through customer events, conferences, industry groups, and published content.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, consulting, or software engineering with deep hands-on expertise in a relevant security, cloud platform, DevSecOps, migration, or AI-assisted development domain.
  • Practical customer-facing pre-sales experience with agentic and AI-assisted development workflows spanning planning, coding, testing, security, and delivery.
  • Experience winning technical decisions in large, complex enterprise opportunities through structured PoC or PoV evaluations with defined success criteria 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 skills and the ability to convert 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 certifications in Kubernetes, cloud architecture, or security are optional qualifications.
  • Transferable experience in an adjacent domain is welcomed.

Benefits

  • Fully remote, distributed work environment with location-based eligibility requirements that may vary by role.
  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental Leave.

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.

Contact me