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As a Senior Developer Advocate at GitLab, you'll help technical audiences understand and use our intelligent orchestration platform where teams and their AI agents ship secure software faster. You'll go deep on the product, especially GitLab Duo Agent Platform and our newer capabilities, and continuously discover real-world workflows that teams care about. You'll turn that hands-on knowledge into demos, blog posts, videos, and presentations, and bring what you learn from customers and the developer community back to GitLab.
This role focuses on showing the product in action and building relationships with customers and the community. You'll help cover events and work across U.S. and Canadian time zones.
What you'll do- Deeply understand GitLab's platform, especially our AI agent capabilities, and continuously find productive, real-world use cases worth showing.
- Create product content, including videos, blog posts, presentations, and social clips that show key use cases for GitLab in the user interface and terminal.
- Produce video content end to end: script, record, and edit product walkthroughs and demos, and collaborate with GitLab's video team on longer or higher-production pieces.
- Deliver product demos and participate in analyst briefings.
- Engage with customers through webinars, customer meetings, and other conversations.
- Participate in the developer community by engaging on the GitLab forum and Discord, following the conversations happening on social platforms, in newsletters, and at events, and making sure GitLab has a voice in the ones that matter.
- Answer technical questions that come through the sales team, and partner with support, sales, and product on developer-facing educational content.
- Use hands-on product experience to share feedback with product teams and test new features.
- Contribute to technical research and analysis of the developer tools landscape.
- Travel requirement up to 20% for events and customer meetings.
- Hands-on technical experience. You understand how software gets built, with a focus on everything that happens after code is written, and can talk about it credibly with engineers.
- Understanding of artificial intelligence and its use in software development, from coding all the way to production. You have built and operated agentic systems and infrastructure.
- The ability to explain technical products clearly. You can demo a product, record a walkthrough, or speak at a conference without it feeling forced.
- Fluency in developer social platforms. You know what's interesting to the people we're trying to reach and can participate in the conversation with credibility.
- Curiosity and self-direction. You're already finding the next thing worth talking about, following the right people, and noticing opportunities.
- Experience engaging with customers, developers, or technical communities.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate across sales, engineering, product, and other teams.
The Developer Advocacy team creates content that shows GitLab in use, engages with customers and the developer community, and brings hands-on product feedback to GitLab teams. The team also contributes technical research and analysis, while partnering with other groups to share its findings.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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Skills Required
- Hands-on technical experience understanding software development workflows, particularly post-code development and operations
- Understanding of artificial intelligence and its use in software development from coding through production
- Experience building and operating agentic systems and infrastructure
- Ability to clearly explain technical products through demos, recorded walkthroughs, and conference presentations
- Fluency with developer social platforms and credibility participating in technical conversations
- Curiosity and self-direction in identifying relevant technical topics and opportunities
- Experience engaging with customers, developers, or technical communities
- Ability to work independently and collaborate across sales, engineering, product, and other teams
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes nationwide Cigna medical with Kaiser options in CA/HI, plus dental, vision, an Employee Assistance Program, and monthly HSA contributions for HDHP enrollees. Company‑paid life and AD&D at 2× base salary and employer‑paid short/long‑term disability further bolster financial protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away policies feature Flexible PTO with no set accruals alongside sick time, caregiving sick time, bereavement, volunteer time, and public holidays. Guidance emphasizes coordinating coverage within an all‑remote, asynchronous model.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave offers 16 weeks for birth or adoption, with planning and return‑to‑work toolkits. Family support is reinforced by programs such as backup care and tutoring via Vivvi in select regions.
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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. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevSecOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.
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