Customer Success Engineer

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Job Description

Customer Success Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform.
The Role
As a Customer Success Engineer you'll provide technical expertise and guidance to customers post-sale enhancing their use of GitLab's solutions through webinars labs and best practices. You'll collaborate with internal teams to support implementation and customer relationships.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Customer Success Engineer you'll help customers get real measurable value from GitLab after the sale by providing technical product expertise and best practice guidance. You'll be part of the customer success engineer team that delivers GitLab's On-Demand Success Tier through webinars hands-on labs office hours and on-demand engagements.

This is a pooled model so you won't be dedicated to a specific set of accounts. You'll collaborate closely with Customer Success Managers Account Executives and Renewals Managers to support implementation architecture and use case adoption across GitLab's key workflows including source code management continuous integration and delivery DevSecOps and Agile Planning. You'll report to the Customer Success Engineer Team Manager and your first-year outcomes will focus on building trusted advisor relationships enabling successful customer implementations and creating reusable workshops and technical content that helps customers adopt GitLab at scale.

What you'll do
  • Engage with customers via Zoom calls and email as a technical consultant during the post-sales journey providing product solution and best-practice guidance.
  • Partner with Customer Success Managers to go deep on GitLab use case implementation (for example: source code management continuous integration continuous delivery DevSecOps and Agile Planning).
  • Deliver practical customer-specific enablement through webinars hands-on labs office hours and on-demand engagements in a pooled support model (not dedicated to a single account)
  • Provide technical and architectural guidance that helps customers adopt GitLab capabilities and connect technical decisions to the outcomes they care about.
  • Align with Account Executives and Renewals Managers to share customer-facing subject matter expertise that supports customer business objectives
  • Develop and deliver workshops demos and other reusable enablement content in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
  • Build and maintain specialty competency in one or more technologies aligned to GitLab's market focus through training certification and creating working examples for internal and customer use.
  • Contribute to customer-facing learning resources including GitLab documentation YouTube content and enablement programs such as the Digital Journey.
What you'll bring
  • Experience supporting one or more GitLab use cases (source code management continuous integration continuous delivery DevSecOps or Agile Planning) and enabling customers with practical in-depth guidance.
  • Proficiency with DevSecOps tools or adjacent highly technical tooling with the ability to translate tool capabilities into customer outcomes.
  • Technical background in software development or systems engineering including comfort discussing architecture workflows and implementation tradeoffs.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical and organizational topics clearly in writing and live settings (Zoom calls workshops and presentations).
  • Experience operating as a trusted technical advisor to customer and business stakeholders in a post-sales environment.
  • Strong time management and prioritization skills including the ability to juggle multiple customer engagements and cross-functional requests in a pooled model.
  • Continuous learning mindset including maintaining specialty competency through training certification documentation or creation of reusable examples; we welcome transferable experience from related roles and backgrounds.
About the team

We're a globally distributed customer success engineer (CSE) team supporting customers in GitLab's On-Demand Success Tier. We collaborate asynchronously and stay aligned through clear documentation and shared enablement assets. We continuously improve our content and delivery based on what we learn from customer engagements.

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.

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

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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 (including pregnancy lactation sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression) national origin age citizenship marital status mental or physical disability genetic information (including family medical history) discharge status from the military protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans recently separated veterans active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans and Armed Forces service medal veterans) or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know during the recruiting process.

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The Company
San Francisco CA
2500 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive DevSecOps Platform used by more than 100000 organizations. Our mission makes it clear that we believe in a world where everyone can contribute. We make that possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best.

Why Work With Us

We’ve got big ambitions to make GitLab the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform and need skilled contributors to get us there. At GitLab your contributions shape the future of software development at a time when AI is changing the way software is built. Together we're building the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform.

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