Senior Support Engineer

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity & stock purchase plan

Growth & Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Support Engineer to join our distributed team. You will troubleshoot complex issues across self-managed GitLab and GitLab.com environments, work with Linux systems and our Ruby on Rails stack, and help shape our support processes and content.

You will collaborate with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales to influence roadmaps, implement fixes, and deliver exceptional customer support. This role emphasizes on-call rotations and team mentorship.

Qualifications

• Experience owning complex, customer-facing technical cases from initial contact to resolution.
• Strong Linux system administration and scripting skills in production or customer environments.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD practices to investigate and fix issues.

Responsibilities

• Escalate and lead resolution of difficult customer issues via Zendesk, MR, email, and calls.
• Mentor teammates on troubleshooting and customer communication.
• Drive improvements to support practices, product quality, and documentation.

Skills

Customer-facing tech cases

Linux administration

Git & CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring teammates

Tools

Kubernetes

Serverless

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. 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 Support Engineer at GitLab, you’ll sit at the intersection of Support and Engineering, helping customers solve complex, real-world challenges while running GitLab in diverse and demanding environments. You’ll join the Engineering department and work directly with customers as they encounter edge cases. You’ll dig into Linux systems, logs, and our Ruby on Rails codebase to troubleshoot performance issues, reproduce bugs, and contribute merge requests that fix problems at the source.

You’ll also improve our documentation, refine support processes in our issue tracker, and collaborate closely with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales so customer feedback directly shapes our roadmap. In your first year, you’ll build deep expertise across a range of GitLab implementations, strengthen our ability to keep customers productive on both self-managed GitLab and GitLab.com software as a service, and help create tools and content that make support more efficient and effective for the entire team.

Some examples of our projects:

• A tool to automatically check a GitLab Omnibus install for known issues
• A solution to capture the state of a customer’s server for easier troubleshooting
• A tool which turns log files into interactive tables to easily sort and filter columns
• A ChatOps feature that makes it easier to identify user accounts on GitLab.com

What you’ll do

• Act as an escalation point for difficult customer interactions and lead the resolution of complex issues through Zendesk tickets, merge requests, email, and video calls.
• Mentor and guide teammates on complex troubleshooting and customer communication through pairing sessions and cross-team collaboration.
• Advocate for and drive improvements to support practices, product quality, and reusable documentation and support content that directly influence team objectives.
• Collaborate with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales teams to shape product goals, roadmaps, and priorities while driving fixes and new features.
• Participate in regular weekday and weekend on-call rotations during daytime hours, providing emergency support for self-managed GitLab and software as a service customers and coordinating incident communications with the GitLab.com Production team.
• Participate in hiring by reviewing applications and assessments and joining interviews to help grow the Support team.

What you’ll bring

• Experience owning complex, customer-facing technical cases from initial contact through triage, reproduction, bug reporting, resolution, and clear customer communication, including difficult or escalated interactions.
• Strong experience with Linux systems administration, scripting, Git, and continuous integration and continuous delivery in production or customer environments, with the ability to investigate issues at both the infrastructure and application levels.
• Ability to mentor teammates on complex troubleshooting and customer communication through pairing sessions, case reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams to turn customer feedback into product fixes, feature improvements, and roadmap priorities.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and technologies such as Kubernetes and serverless computing, and an understanding of how different GitLab implementations operate and affect customers.
• Demonstrated ability to learn, collaborate across teams, and apply transferable skills from related technical support or engineering roles.

About the team

We’re a globally distributed group of Support Engineers across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia-Pacific. We work asynchronously and stay connected through pairing sessions, one-on-one meetings, coffee chats, and Slack.

We structure our shifts to support our personal lives while meeting customer needs. Thanks to GitLab’s transparency value, you can see what we are working on and how we operate on our Support Team page.

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

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.

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