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As an AI Subject Matter Expert at GitLab, you will help shape how teams apply AI across the future of core DevOps. We designed this role for someone who combines deep technical credibility with a practical point of view on how AI can improve the software development lifecycle, from planning and coding through delivery and operations. You will work closely with customers, internal teams, and product-aligned stakeholders to bring clarity to emerging use cases, guide technical strategy, and turn ideas into grounded, real-world approaches.
We are looking for someone who doesn't just talk about possibilities, but who regularly experiments, develops informed perspectives, and can explain the tradeoffs behind modern software development patterns. Your work will help GitLab link AI innovation to the day-to-day realities of developers and platform teams.
Some examples of our projects:
- Exploring how AI can improve core DevOps workflows across the software development lifecycle
- Advising on practical approaches to automated and AI-assisted software delivery
- Serve as GitLab's AI subject matter expert for core DevOps, bringing technical depth and practical guidance to customer and internal conversations.
- Partner with customers and field teams to map AI use cases to real software development lifecycle challenges and recommend approaches that improve developer productivity, delivery speed, or operational reliability.
- Develop and share informed perspectives on the future of AI in software development, including emerging concepts such as more automated delivery workflows.
- Engage with product-aligned teams to ensure your domain expertise reflects how GitLab organizes and evolves its platform capabilities.
- Evaluate and discuss architectural tradeoffs such as monoliths versus microservices and monorepos versus polyrepos in the context of AI-enabled development.
- Draw on hands-on experience with modern DevOps tooling and automation, including areas such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, to inform strategic discussions.
- Collaborate asynchronously with teammates across regions to share findings, align recommendations, and keep customer and product work moving forward.
- Contribute to a streamlined interview and collaboration culture that values clear communication, iteration, and practical results.
- Significant experience in software development, DevOps, platform engineering, solutions architecture, or a closely related technical field.
- Deep interest and hands-on experimentation in how AI is changing the software development lifecycle, especially in core DevOps workflows.
- Strong technical foundation in modern software delivery practices, including automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and cloud-native or platform-oriented environments.
- Ability to speak thoughtfully about architectural and operational tradeoffs, including Kubernetes, monolithic versus microservices architectures, and monorepo versus polyrepo approaches.
- Experience guiding technical strategy with customers, internal stakeholders, or engineering teams in a way that is practical rather than purely theoretical.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical ideas to different audiences.
- Comfort working effectively with minimal oversight as a manager of one in a remote, asynchronous environment while staying closely aligned with a global team.
- Openness to candidates from different backgrounds, including practitioners, senior solutions architects, or technical experts with transferable expertise in AI and DevSecOps.
The AI subject matter expert joins a small global team within GitLab's Solutions Architecture organization that provides deep domain expertise aligned to GitLab's product areas. We are built to link fast-moving AI innovation with the realities of customer environments and modern software delivery. Rather than staying at a high level, we focus on practical technical depth and help translate emerging ideas into useful guidance.
This role is specifically aligned to core DevOps, alongside peers focused on other areas such as platforms and security and compliance. We work across regions and collaborate closely with product-aligned functions, making this a strong fit for someone who enjoys working across technical boundaries while staying grounded in hands-on knowledge. Our challenge is to keep pace with rapid change in AI while remaining clear, credible, and useful to the people building and operating software every day.
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- 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
- Significant experience in software development, DevOps, platform engineering, or solutions architecture
- Hands-on experimentation in AI and software development lifecycle
- Strong foundation in automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native environments
- Experience with architectural tradeoffs in development
- Experience guiding technical strategy with stakeholders
- Clear communication skills for explaining technical ideas
- Ability to work with minimal oversight in a global team
- Open to candidates with diverse backgrounds in AI and DevSecOps
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple national medical plan options (Cigna EPO/HDHP/PPO and Kaiser in select areas) with separate dental and vision, alongside EAP and dedicated mental‑health support. Company‑paid life/AD&D and disability protections further strengthen the overall safety net.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave offers 16 weeks at 100% of base pay from day one, with flexibility to use leave in segments and a supported ramp‑back period. Coaching and resources for new parents add structure to planning and return.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible Paid Time Off is complemented by defined sick, caregiving, bereavement, volunteer, and civic leave options. Public holidays are handled flexibly so individuals can observe dates most relevant to them.
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What We Do
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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