Developer Advocate

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Developer Advocate who can create compelling content and engage with the developer community. This role focuses on building relationships and improving the GitLab experience while working with cutting-edge DevSecOps technologies. Applicants should have a strong background in software development and outstanding communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in software creation or open source projects.
• Outstanding communication skills to translate complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Create and publish engaging technical content including blog posts and tutorials.
• Engage with developer communities and deliver presentations.
• Act as the voice of the developer and gather feedback.

Skills

Communication

Technical Content Creation

Community Engagement

Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensiveAI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Ourmissionis to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running ouroperationson our product and staying aligned with ourvalues. Learn more aboutLife at GitLab.

Thanks to products likeDuo Enterprise, andDuo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

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:

• Developer Advocacy Handbook
• Developer Advocacy Content Library
• youtube.com/gitlab
• about.gitlab.com/blog

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.

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