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Global Unlimited PTO

  • Set technical direction for agentic systems and drive fixes from hypothesis to shipped, measured results.
  • Work across GitLab's codebase as a generalist, applying distributed systems judgment to catch concurrency and scale issues.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and pairing, and collaborate with India-based group on roadmap.

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Global

  • Identify sources of friction across the software development lifecycle and scope agentic solutions to address them.
  • Design and build reliable AI-powered systems that follow step-by-step workflows and use tooling with safety checks.
  • Build and maintain evaluation tools that judge agent output on correctness, constraint compliance, and cost.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With over 50 million registered users and a high-performance culture, GitLab fosters innovation and collaboration across a global remote team.

Global

  • Own outcomes for Git & Gitaly Operations, Nonlinear Productivity, and Platform Staff.
  • Set the technical bar across all three functions by reviewing distributed systems designs and crisis management plans.
  • Build operating rhythm and metrics to ensure predictable outcomes without relying on one-person heroics.

GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that enables organizations to improve developer productivity and security. With over 50 million users and trust from the Fortune 100, it has a high-performance culture driven by values.

$254,000–$297,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Contribute production-quality code to GitLab's product, developing bug fixes, features, and integrations to resolve strategic customer blockers.
  • Act as a technical steward for high-impact customer challenges, coordinating across teams to diagnose and resolve complex issues.
  • Drive AI adoption and agentic SDLC practices with strategic customers, creating reusable patterns and product improvements.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trusting GitLab, we foster a high-performance culture driven by our values, AI adoption, and continuous knowledge exchange.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Build and lead a team with deep platform expertise in Git and Gitaly, hiring engineers who can operate this infrastructure layer with strong operational judgment.
  • Own production reliability for Git and Gitaly across GitLab's full deployment footprint, including incident management and root cause investigation.
  • Design and operate Git and Gitaly service models across Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated, and SaaS, maintaining cloud-agnostic architecture.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100 trusting the platform, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI integration.

Americas Unlimited PTO

  • Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and related infrastructure.
  • Build a team culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership while driving execution on complex, long-horizon projects.
  • Balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, fostering strong written communication across a distributed team.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 as customers, we foster a high-performance culture driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange.

EMEA Unlimited PTO

  • Contribute production-quality code to GitLab's product, developing bug fixes, features, and integrations to resolve strategic customer challenges.
  • Diagnose complex problems across GitLab product behavior, customer architecture, and AI adoption, coordinating cross-functional teams for resolution.
  • Drive governed, measurable adoption of the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, creating reusable patterns and thought leadership.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI adoption.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Contribute to the Platform Readiness team's agentic workflows on the Duo Agent Platform, designing and implementing automated evaluation of platform readiness.
  • Evolve the platform requirements knowledge base by contributing to schema design, validation tooling, and CI systems for cross-platform readiness.
  • Build integration surfaces that enable feature teams to engage with platform readiness tools directly in their existing workflows like issues, merge requests, and CI/CD pipelines.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and trust from 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a small, hand-picked team to identify and fix the highest-leverage friction points in GitLab's SDLC through a root-cause, shift-left approach.
  • Define the operating model for non-linear productivity, prioritizing opportunities across flaky tests, review latency, pipeline reliability, tooling gaps, and context loss.
  • Personally recruit and mentor 4 exceptional engineers, set technical direction, and operate with metrics-driven accountability against system-level outcomes.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that enables organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100 as customers, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, AI integration, and continuous knowledge exchange.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build the trigger system linking GitLab events to AI-powered Duo Flows.
  • Architect for high availability and throughput in a multi-service environment.
  • Collaborate cross-departmentally to integrate triggers with the broader agent ecosystem.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 as customers, GitLab fosters a high-performance, values-driven culture where every voice is valued and innovation flourishes.

Global

  • Lead agent optimization efforts to design tools for optimizing token spend and response time.
  • Work closely with the AI Foundations team on agentic development and ecosystem integrations.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of features, ensuring reliability and great developer experience.

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies code and makes applications more reliable. They are a growing, fully-remote company with values of curiosity, collaboration, and humility.

  • Architect production-grade multi-agent frameworks and orchestration layers from scratch.
  • Balance rapid prototyping with long-term sustainable architectural foundations.
  • Implement rigorous frameworks for benchmarking, prompt engineering, and evaluating agent reliability.

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company behind Firefox and other privacy-minded products. With over 225 million monthly users, we are a mission-driven organization owned by the Mozilla Foundation, employing thousands of volunteers and collaborators worldwide to build open-source software for a better internet.

Global 7w PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Partner closely with researchers to translate research workflows into self-improving agentic flows.
  • Design and build robust backend services using Python and Go to power our agents.
  • Drive adoption of agent-native research workflows.

Poolside is building Artificial General Intelligence to accelerate software development through agentic systems and coding assistants. The team is distributed across Europe and North America with a culture of low ego, collaboration, and kindness.

India Unlimited PTO

  • Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synchronized into the Knowledge Graph as a near-real-time graph of the development ecosystem.
  • Design the Data Marketplace so customers can consume GitLab data through Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery without engineering handoffs.
  • Mentor senior and intermediate engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review.

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

North America Europe

  • Own product work across web console, APIs, CLI, GitHub integrations, billing, and internal tools.
  • Turn ambiguous customer pain into clear product and technical plans, from design to measurement.
  • Debug production issues and raise the engineering bar through mentorship and technical leadership.

Depot helps software teams build faster by providing a platform for CI, remote container builds, and developer tools, making infrastructure feel fast and dependable. The company is a small, fully remote team distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe, emphasizing clear writing, async collaboration, and high ownership.

India

  • Build and maintain a unified data collection platform using Golang, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, and NATS, with success measured by reliability, performance, and adoption.
  • Improve the emission, transit, and quality of instrumentation data, with success measured by data quality, integrity, and usage billing accuracy.
  • Support usage billing and instrumentation systems during working hours, with success measured by timely incident handling and reliable service restoration.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI integration.

US Canada

  • Lead technical execution across endpoint agent, backend services, inference pipelines, infrastructure, and frontend.
  • Translate priorities into clear plans, milestones, and owners; manage and mentor engineers.
  • Run effective cadence for planning, prioritization, and retrospectives; own hiring and onboarding.

Origin builds the endpoint AI observability platform for AI-adopting organizations, ensuring productivity and safety of AI on endpoints. The company is backed by top VC firms like Sequoia Capital and operates as a fully remote team across the US & Canada, built on trust, autonomy, and excellence.

Europe US East Coast

  • Lead the Code Plane team, owning products like Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, and src CLI.
  • Set technical direction, drive roadmap from issue to shipped, and keep team unblocked while working with customers and cross-functional partners.
  • Use 8+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on AI expertise to shape dev tools for the agentic age of coding.

Sourcegraph is the world's most powerful code intelligence platform, providing Code Search, Deep Search, and MCP to help developers and agents navigate and operate on large codebases. Backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, we operate as a globally distributed team that values high agency, direct communication, and a deep love for developers.

$88,000–$176,000/yr
Global

  • Design and harden multi-step, tool-using agent loops for agentic experiences at enterprise scale.
  • Drive the vision for code understanding by combining deterministic systems and AI into innovative products.
  • Own agent engineering decisions on models, retrieval, context, cost, and latency to improve product quality.

Sourcegraph is the world's most powerful code intelligence platform, providing Code Search and Deep Search to help developers navigate and understand massive codebases. They are a globally distributed team backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Redpoint, and value high agency and direct communication.

UK Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the fullstack Switchboard team responsible for GitLab Dedicated's customer-facing control panel.
  • Hire and develop a high-performing team where team members can thrive and produce results with quality and speed.
  • Partner closely with Product and Design on the customer-facing control panel, including wireframes and UI direction.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million users and trust from more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Build and hold the team: hiring, coaching, performance conversations, and career growth for ten engineers.
  • Keep the codebase healthy across quarters, balancing tech debt with product needs.
  • Grow the team's agentic engineering practice, moving each engineer up the capability model.

Caribou is a financial technology company that helps people refinance auto loans to save money. They are backed by notable investors and have a culture of velocity, collaboration, and giving a damn.