Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, down 45% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
GitLab currently has 25 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 92%, are focused on agents, with a single role each in application and data. The primary function for these positions is Engineering, with 22 roles, followed by Product with 3 roles. Hiring is concentrated in the United States, with 10 positions, and the United Kingdom and India each have 4 roles. Frequent tech tags include agent_orchestration, model_serving, and tool_use, suggesting a focus on building and deploying AI agents.
GitLab currently has 26 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Forward Deployed Engineer - UK (2), Senior AI Engineer (2), AI Engineer, AI Transformation Owner, Marketing, CX, Staff Forward Deployed Engineer . Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
GitLab's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (88%), application (8%), data (4%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
GitLab is hiring AI talent in: United States (12 roles), United Kingdom (6 roles), Canada (4 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at GitLab most frequently reference: agent orchestration, model serving, guardrails, tool use, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, GitLab has posted 12 new AI-related roles. That is a -25% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 12).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity Distinguished Engineer role focused on pioneering and scaling autonomous, agentic SDLC capabilities within GitLab. The role involves identifying productivity opportunities, leading hands-on experiments with AI agents for tasks like MR authoring and security remediation, designing reference architectures with guardrails and observability, defining evaluation frameworks, and converting proven internal patterns into customer-facing product capabilities. Requires deep expertise in AI/ML systems, agentic frameworks, and production-scale autonomous workflows. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| AI Engineer AI Engineer at GitLab focused on building internal AI-powered solutions for Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support. The role involves diagnosing business problems, owning AI initiatives end-to-end, designing and shipping AI solutions quickly, and integrating AI capabilities into existing systems. Emphasis on practical outcomes, measurable business value, and using AI as a productivity multiplier. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Staff Security Engineer, IAM (USA) This Staff Security Engineer role focuses on designing and implementing identity and access management (IAM) solutions for enterprise AI platforms and AI agents. The role involves leading engineering efforts for AI platforms, codifying identity in Terraform, and pioneering governance for non-human identities including AI agents. Experience with AI platforms and AI-specific risks is required, and the role operates within regulated environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer responsible for delivering internal AI-powered solutions across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support. The role focuses on diagnosing business problems, designing and shipping AI solutions end-to-end, improving organizational flow, and integrating AI capabilities into existing systems using APIs and orchestration tools. Emphasis on practical outcomes, measurable business value, and leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Director, Solution Architecture - North America Senior Director of Solutions Architecture for GitLab, a DevSecOps platform that integrates AI. This leadership role focuses on leading a team of managers to guide technical sales, customer engagements, and operational scale. The role requires developing strategy, improving processes for technical evaluations, and partnering across departments to enhance GitLab's value proposition as an AI-powered platform. | — | 5 |
| Customer Success Engineer - West GitLab is seeking a Customer Success Engineer to help customers derive value from the GitLab platform, focusing on technical product expertise and best practices. The role involves post-sales customer engagement, providing guidance on DevSecOps workflows, and developing reusable enablement content. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in software development or systems engineering, experience as a trusted technical advisor, and the ability to communicate complex topics clearly. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Security Incident Response Team (USA) Manager for GitLab's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) in the Americas, focusing on leading a team of incident response engineers, managing daily operations, coaching growth, and ensuring quality results. The role involves threat hunting, alert triage, security investigations, and DFIR, with an emphasis on leveraging AI and automation to optimize workflows and improve security posture. | — | 5 |
| Director, Customer Support Systems This role leads the technology strategy for GitLab's global post-sales organization, focusing on systems that power Customer Success, Support, and Community workflows, with a strong emphasis on the Zendesk platform and the broader support technology ecosystem. The Director will define a multi-year roadmap, improve platform governance, and drive the adoption of AI and automation to enhance efficiency, triage, routing, and operational productivity. The role involves leading a distributed team of engineers and architects to evolve the support technology stack towards proactive, data-informed improvements and better customer experience. | — | 5 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer Staff Forward Deployed Engineer role focused on helping enterprise customers adopt GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex, regulated environments. This role involves deep technical discovery, designing adoption paths, and building reusable solutions for AI-enabled workflows, influencing product direction based on field needs. | Agent | 5 |
| Vice President of Engineering, DevOps Engineering Vice President of Engineering role at GitLab, focusing on leading a globally distributed engineering organization for an AI-powered DevSecOps platform. The role involves defining engineering strategy, driving operational excellence, championing AI-native practices in workflows and products, and partnering with Product Management and other executive stakeholders. Requires strong technical credibility, experience leading large distributed teams, and familiarity with AI-powered product development or integrating AI into developer workflows. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Senior Security Engineer for GitLab's Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). This role focuses on defending GitLab.com and its environment against security threats, supporting FedRAMP, and leveraging automation and AI-driven approaches to improve detection, investigation, and response. Requires U.S. citizenship and residency. | — | 5 |
| Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer This role focuses on helping enterprise customers adopt GitLab and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, particularly in complex, regulated, or constrained environments. The engineer will guide technical discovery, design adoption paths, and build reusable solutions for AI-enabled workflows, including AI Gateway and model connectivity. They will also contribute code or design changes upstream when necessary and create durable technical assets to influence product direction. | Agent | 5 |
| Solutions Architect, Commercial - West Solutions Architect for GitLab's AI-powered DevSecOps platform, focusing on Mid-Market prospects and customers in North America. The role involves guiding customers through technical evaluations, solution design, and digital transformation journeys, acting as a trusted advisor and customer advocate. The Solutions Architect will collaborate with sales teams, influence revenue growth, and provide customer feedback to internal product and engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Director, Enterprise Architecture & Intelligent Automation Director of Enterprise Architecture & AI Intelligent Automation responsible for defining and governing how GitLab's internal systems connect, integrate, and evolve. This role will lead Enterprise Architecture, Integration, & RPA teams, setting architectural standards, governance frameworks, and strategic vision. The role involves shaping the long-term architecture, establishing an Architecture Review Board, rationalizing automation and integration, and clarifying when to use AI, RPA, or traditional integration. The goal is to reduce shadow IT and software sprawl, drive clear patterns for data flows, and ensure compliance with SOX and security requirements. | Agent | 5 |
| G&A Engineer, Netsuite/Claude This role is for an IT Enterprise Applications Engineer specializing in NetSuite & Claude Code. The primary focus is on the implementation and operational ownership of Enterprise Applications, specifically integrating NetSuite with Claude tools to automate and improve business processes like Quote To Cash, Procure to Pay, and Record to Report. The engineer will develop and maintain business workflows, build system integrations, and manage system metadata. While the role involves using AI tools like Claude, it is not focused on building or researching AI models themselves, but rather on leveraging them for enterprise application efficiency. | — | 5 |
| Director of Engineering, Workflows & Runners Director of Engineering to lead teams building core primitives for Workflows and Function Runtime at GitLab. Owns strategy, architecture, and delivery of scalable, multi-tenant, cost-efficient distributed systems. Hands-on leadership role working with senior engineers on design and technical decisions, while building and scaling a high-performing engineering organization. Collaborates with AI/ML teams. | — | 0 |
| Contract Talent Acquisition Sourcer, Sales GitLab is seeking a Contract Talent Acquisition Sourcer to build candidate pipelines for their sales team in the AMER region. This role involves outbound sourcing, partnering with recruiters and hiring managers, mapping talent markets, and assessing candidate alignment. The company emphasizes AI as a productivity tool for all team members. | — | 0 |
| Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer for their Environment Automation team. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and consistency of hundreds of isolated GitLab environments for customers. The engineer will work with infrastructure as code, deployment packages, and Kubernetes, contributing to automation across the entire lifecycle from provisioning to operations. Responsibilities include defining, deploying, and maintaining environments, debugging production issues, building automation for upgrades and configuration changes, and supporting an observability stack. The role emphasizes treating everything as code and managing many tenant environments in parallel. | — | 0 |
| Professional Services, Technical Architect - West This role is for a Professional Services Technical Architect at GitLab, focusing on designing and delivering GitLab reference architectures and leading customer engagements. Responsibilities include technical direction, implementation planning, coordinating consultants, performing migrations, and providing DevOps/DevSecOps consulting. The role emphasizes using infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and migration tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Congregate. While the company embraces AI for productivity, the core function of this role is not AI/ML development but rather the implementation and architecture of the GitLab platform. | — | 0 |
| Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Software Supply Chain Security: Secrets Management This role is for a Staff Backend Engineer focused on Secrets Management within GitLab's Software Supply Chain Security stage. The engineer will provide technical leadership for GitLab Secrets Manager, an OpenBao-powered solution for secure secrets management in CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, driving architecture decisions for multi-tenant secrets management at scale, guiding integration into GitLab, and contributing to the OpenBao open source project. The role requires experience with secrets management systems, cryptographic concepts, authentication/authorization integrations, and Go/Ruby on Rails. The engineer will also mentor other engineers and engage with customers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby or Golang), Tenant Scale; Cells Infrastructure This role is for a Senior Backend Engineer on the Cells Infrastructure team at GitLab. The primary focus is on building and operating foundational services for GitLab's Cells architecture, specifically edge routing services and the Topology Service. The goal is to enable GitLab.com to scale horizontally by ensuring reliable and low-latency traffic direction across a fleet of independent Cell clusters. The role involves designing, implementing, and operating these systems, collaborating with other teams, and contributing to documentation and operational readiness. While the company mentions embracing AI as a productivity multiplier and incorporating it into daily workflows, this specific role's core responsibilities are in backend engineering for infrastructure scaling, not in building or directly managing AI/ML models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Platforms Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Platforms at GitLab, focusing on building and supporting a high-performing team that ensures platforms are secure, reliable, and scalable. The role involves hiring, coaching, and developing team members, partnering with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to translate business goals into resilient infrastructure platforms, and guiding architecture and design discussions. The role also includes participation in the Incident Management on-call rotation. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Software Supply Chain Security: Pipeline Security Engineering Manager for GitLab's Software Supply Chain Security team, focusing on CI job artifact security, SLSA framework implementation, SBOM, and vulnerability management. The role involves leading a team, collaborating with Product and Security, and staying current with supply chain security standards. | — | 0 |