Developer Advocate
An overview of this role
Are you passionate about empowering developers and shaping the future of technology? GitLab is seeking a dynamic and experienced Developer Advocate to join our growing Developer Relations team. As a Developer Advocate at GitLab, you'll be at the heart of our mission to build authentic connections with the global developer community. You'll help us directly engage developers – supporting developers with technical content that helps them solve real problems, engaging with developers through meaningful conversations, and creating value for developers by improving their GitLab experience.
You work will primarily fall within the 'Three Cs' our team focuses on:
Content: creating compelling technical content (blogs, demos, videos, tutorials)
Customer and community engagement: engaging with customers and community members through forums and events
Consulting: consulting cross-functionally to ensure the developer voice shapes GitLab's direction
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on GitLab's developer community strategy while working with DevSecOps technologies, AI-powered development tools, and one of the world's largest DevOps platforms. You'll help us grow our developer mindshare through technical excellence and authentic community relationships.
What You’ll Do
Create High-Quality Content: Develop and publish engaging technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, sample code, videos, whitepapers, and documentation, to help developers understand and successfully utilize our platforms.
Engage and Educate: Connect with developer communities online (forums, social media, Q&A sites) and offline (meetups, conferences, hackathons). Deliver compelling presentations, workshops, and demos to showcase the power and potential of GitLab.
Community Building: Foster and nurture a welcoming and inclusive community. Support user groups, contribute to open-source projects, and identify and empower community champions.
Champion Developer Needs: Act as the voice of the developer within GitLab. Gather feedback, identify pain points, and advocate for improvements to our products, documentation, and developer experience.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate closely with internal teams (Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales) and key strategic partners (like AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) to develop and execute joint developer advocacy strategies, co-create content, and solve customer problems.
What You’ll Bring
Must have meaningful experience creating software or contributing to open source projects, with demonstrated understanding of modern development workflows including AI assisted development
Experience with security and/or AI tools and understanding of the problems they help users solve.
Experience creating technical content including talks, demos, workshops, webinars, videos, and written materials. Please provide a recent example of your work.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, intuitive explanations
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple projects and deadlines
Comfortable presenting to technical audiences and ability to travel up to 20% of the time for events and community engagement
You share our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity & inclusion, iteration, and transparency, and have the ability to use GitLab effectively
Some examples of our projects:
About the team
The Developer Advocacy team supports and grows GitLab's user community by enabling and engaging with GitLab community members through deep technical content, targeted programs, and events. We're part of the broader Developer Relations team and focus on areas aligning with GitLab's strategic interests including DevSecOps, enterprise-scale software delivery challenges, and AI-powered development workflows.
Our team operates globally with members specializing in different focus areas including Core DevOps, Security, and AI. We work in public by default, maintaining projects that showcase GitLab use cases, provide technical demonstrations, and actively support our customers, community, and teammates. Our team collaborates most closely with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Sales.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. 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, and alignment with market data. 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.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$98,000—$210,000 USD
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Developer Advocate
An overview of this role
Are you passionate about empowering developers and shaping the future of technology? GitLab is seeking a dynamic and experienced Developer Advocate to join our growing Developer Relations team. As a Developer Advocate at GitLab, you'll be at the heart of our mission to build authentic connections with the global developer community. You'll help us directly engage developers – supporting developers with technical content that helps them solve real problems, engaging with developers through meaningful conversations, and creating value for developers by improving their GitLab experience.
You work will primarily fall within the 'Three Cs' our team focuses on:
Content: creating compelling technical content (blogs, demos, videos, tutorials)
Customer and community engagement: engaging with customers and community members through forums and events
Consulting: consulting cross-functionally to ensure the developer voice shapes GitLab's direction
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on GitLab's developer community strategy while working with DevSecOps technologies, AI-powered development tools, and one of the world's largest DevOps platforms. You'll help us grow our developer mindshare through technical excellence and authentic community relationships.
What You’ll Do
Create High-Quality Content: Develop and publish engaging technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, sample code, videos, whitepapers, and documentation, to help developers understand and successfully utilize our platforms.
Engage and Educate: Connect with developer communities online (forums, social media, Q&A sites) and offline (meetups, conferences, hackathons). Deliver compelling presentations, workshops, and demos to showcase the power and potential of GitLab.
Community Building: Foster and nurture a welcoming and inclusive community. Support user groups, contribute to open-source projects, and identify and empower community champions.
Champion Developer Needs: Act as the voice of the developer within GitLab. Gather feedback, identify pain points, and advocate for improvements to our products, documentation, and developer experience.
Strategic Partnerships: Collaborate closely with internal teams (Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales) and key strategic partners (like AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) to develop and execute joint developer advocacy strategies, co-create content, and solve customer problems.
What You’ll Bring
Must have meaningful experience creating software or contributing to open source projects, with demonstrated understanding of modern development workflows including AI assisted development
Experience with security and/or AI tools and understanding of the problems they help users solve.
Experience creating technical content including talks, demos, workshops, webinars, videos, and written materials. Please provide a recent example of your work.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, intuitive explanations
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple projects and deadlines
Comfortable presenting to technical audiences and ability to travel up to 20% of the time for events and community engagement
You share our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity & inclusion, iteration, and transparency, and have the ability to use GitLab effectively
Some examples of our projects:
About the team
The Developer Advocacy team supports and grows GitLab's user community by enabling and engaging with GitLab community members through deep technical content, targeted programs, and events. We're part of the broader Developer Relations team and focus on areas aligning with GitLab's strategic interests including DevSecOps, enterprise-scale software delivery challenges, and AI-powered development workflows.
Our team operates globally with members specializing in different focus areas including Core DevOps, Security, and AI. We work in public by default, maintaining projects that showcase GitLab use cases, provide technical demonstrations, and actively support our customers, community, and teammates. Our team collaborates most closely with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Sales.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. 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, and alignment with market data. 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.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$98,000—$210,000 USD