Senior AI Engineer

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

As a Senior AI Engineer at GitLab, you'll help build the foundation for GitLab's transformation into an AI-first company. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise AI, you'll be a hands-on technical leader responsible for delivering internal AI-powered solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Your initial focus will span Sales, Marketing, and Customer Support, where you will embed AI solutions into key systems and workflows. This role offers the opportunity to shape how GitLab team members work, improve flow across the organization, and help advance our mission in a remote, asynchronous, and values-driven environment.

What You'll Do

• Diagnose business problems before building solutions. Map workflows, identify constraints, and confirm whether AI is the right intervention.
• Own AI initiatives end-to-end, from stakeholder discovery and technical design through implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Design, develop, and ship AI-powered solutions quickly, delivering working prototypes in days, not months, with a focus on practical outcomes and measurable business value.
• Improve organizational flow by building solutions that reduce bottlenecks, shorten lead times, and increase throughput. Measure success using flow metrics alongside adoption and ROI.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing systems and workflows using APIs, orchestration tools, and modern AI platforms, including GitLab Duo Agent Platform, where appropriate.
• Be Customer Zero: leverage and showcase GitLab's AI offerings wherever possible, feeding real-world usage insights back to R&D.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across functions to understand the real constraints. Ask the right questions, bridge technical and non-technical perspectives, and align on outcomes before jumping to solutions.
• Define and track success through business metrics, flow metrics, and feedback loops that make performance visible and actionable.
• Contribute to technical direction by evaluating tools, documenting patterns, and creating reusable foundations that help the team scale its impact.

What You'll Bring

• A Technologist at Heart - Genuinely invested in technology, the foundational and the cutting-edge in equal measure.
• Competent, Confident Coding Skills - You can build working solutions end-to-end, write clean and maintainable code, and debug effectively.
• AI & LLM Technical Depth - Strong proficiency in at least one modern scripting language (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar) and a solid understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL, and integration patterns.
• AI Safety & Risk Awareness - You think critically about how the solutions you build could be exploited, misused, or produce unintended consequences.
• Systems Thinking & Diagnostic Rigour - The ability to look at a complex process and see the constraint.
• Business System Expertise - Familiarity with the landscape of enterprise business systems, CRM (Salesforce), marketing automation (Marketo), support platforms (Zendesk), integration and orchestration tools (Workato).
• Broad Functional Understanding - Ability to have meaningful conversations with stakeholders across diverse domains and quickly understand their unique needs.
• End-to-End Ownership - Track record of owning complex initiatives from discovery through delivery.
• Product Mindset - Ability to scope MVPs, prioritise ruthlessly, and deliver iteratively.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with GitLab platform and CI/CD workflows.
• Background in consulting, solutions engineering, or customer-facing technical roles.
• Familiarity with value stream mapping, flow metrics, or Theory of Constraints thinking.
• Experience with low-code/no-code orchestration tools (n8n, Make, Workato) alongside custom development.
• Previous startup or high-growth company experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading technical projects with junior engineers.

About The Team

You will join the Enterprise Technology & AI team. We're the backbone of the organisation, driving transformation in how GitLab team members make decisions, operate at scale, and deliver results for our customers.

We believe the best AI solutions start with understanding the system, not the technology. We value people who think in constraints and flow, who build with conviction, and who never stop learning. We work in an all-remote, asynchronous setting, guided by GitLab's values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, inclusion and belonging, iteration, and transparency.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• 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.
• Home Office Support.

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.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab's policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, discharge status from the military, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.