Customer Success Engineer

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab Inc. is seeking a Customer Success Engineer to help customers obtain real, measurable value after the sale by delivering technical product expertise and best-practice guidance.

You'll be part of a team delivering On-Demand Success Tier through webinars, labs, office hours, and on-demand engagements. This pooled model emphasizes collaboration with CSMs, AE s, and Renewals to enable scalable adoption of GitLab workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting GitLab use cases across CI/CD or DevSecOps.
• Ability to translate tool capabilities into customer outcomes.
• Technical background in software development or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers via Zoom and email as a technical consultant after the sale.
• Partner with Customer Success Managers to implement GitLab use cases (CI/CD, DevSecOps, Agile Planning).
• Deliver enablement through webinars, hands-on labs, office hours, and on-demand engagements in a pooled model.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance aligning with customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and Renewals Managers to share subject matter expertise.
• Develop and deliver workshops, demos, and reusable enablement content with cross-functional partners.
• Build specialty competency in technologies aligned to GitLab's market focus via training and certification.
• Contribute to customer-facing learning resources such as GitLab documentation and YouTube content.

Skills

GitLab use cases

Post-sales consulting

Technical mentoring

Strong communication

Tools

DevSecOps tools

Job description

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 valuesand 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.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of theUnited States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US.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, alignment with market data,and geographic location.The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. 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.

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