Legal Engineer
GitLab
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Qualifications
- Experience building legal technology systems beyond basic administration.
- Ability to translate legal requirements into technical solutions.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills in a remote setting.
Responsibilities
- Design and build automated workflows for legal tasks.
- Develop custom AI prompts and decision trees.
- Own technical administration for legal technologies.
Skills
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 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.
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An Overview Of This Role
As a Legal Engineer, you bridge two worlds: the Legal & Corporate Affairs team's need for practical, compliant solutions and the technical systems that make them possible. You'll turn slow, manual workflows into automated ones, own core components of the LACA tech stack, and build AI-powered integrations that let the team scale without sacrificing quality. The best fit here is someone who can take initiative to understand a problem, and come back to the team with a proposed system design. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Strategy & Legal Operations, you'll work across legal, business, and technical teams to design and maintain tools for contract workflows, compliance automation, legal analytics, and system integrations.
This is a strong fit if you're excited by translating legal requirements into practical systems and improving how work gets done. In your first year, you'll focus on building AI-enabled workflows, integrating and implementing new systems, and creating better visibility into legal operations through data, reporting, and automation. You'll also help bring AI-powered capabilities into legal processes, including contract review and decision support within tools such as Ironclad CLM and related platforms.
- Design and build automated workflows for legal tasks such as contract review, non-disclosure agreement routing, intellectual property enforcement, compliance monitoring, data retention, inventorying, and data subject request processing.
- Develop custom AI prompts, decision trees, and logic layers that support a wide array of AI use-cases within our connected tools.
- Partner with internal AI and machine learning teams to embed legal logic into broader company automation and tooling.
- Build self-service resources, including intake forms, playbooks, and decision trees, that reduce ad hoc legal requests and improve team efficiency.
- Own technical administration for parts of the legal technology stack, including contract lifecycle management, e-billing, compliance platforms, and workflow automation tools.
- Evaluate new legal technology solutions, from prototyping and vendor assessment through integration and user adoption.
- Collaborate with Sales, Finance, Security, Trust & Safety, and People teams to streamline legal dependencies and implement scalable system integrations with platforms such as Salesforce and Zuora.
- Create dashboards, reporting infrastructure, and data models that support legal analytics, leadership visibility, compliance automation, and customer-facing guidance on product-specific metrics.
- Experience building, configuring, or significantly customizing legal technology systems beyond basic administration.
- Knowledge of in-house legal workflows, including contracts, compliance, intake, and matter management.
- Ability to work with technical tools such as contract lifecycle management platforms, workflow automation tools, SQL or database querying, application programming interface integrations, or scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Comfort translating between legal, technical, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into clear technical solutions.
- Experience supporting cross-functional work with teams such as Sales, Finance, Security, Trust & Safety, or People.
- Ability to build structured reporting or data solutions that support operational decisions, compliance processes, or legal analytics.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills for success in a remote, largely asynchronous environment.
- Openness to transferable experience from legal operations, legal technology, technical program work, or other roles that combine systems thinking with legal process improvement.
The Legal & Corporate Affairs team supports GitLab by helping the business move efficiently while managing legal and compliance risk. Within that function, this role focuses on the systems, workflows, and data infrastructure that power legal operations, from contract lifecycle management and e-billing to compliance automation and reporting. You'll work with a distributed group of legal and cross-functional partners across regions, using asynchronous collaboration to design solutions that scale across the company. The team is focused on reducing manual work, improving self-service, and building dependable integrations between legal systems and GitLab's broader business tools so legal support is easier to access and easier to measure.
- 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.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United 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.
United States Salary Range
$126,000—$178,000 USD
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