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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.
Support Engineering at GitLab isn’t just a title. You’ll be embedded within the engineering department and will truly operate in an environment where support and engineering meet. You’ll interact with customers daily as they encounter the difficult edge cases of running GitLab in complex environments. In the space of a day, you might do behind-the-scenes work as a Linux administrator, using strace on a particular process to troubleshoot performance problems. You might work with the product team to ensure that steps in a bug report are reproducible. You might work with the engineering team by diving deep into our codebase and putting together a merge request to fix a customer issue.
That’s not all, though. You’ll also be invited to contribute to the source code, improve our documentation, and help build more efficient support processes in our issue tracker. We want to live in a world where everyone can contribute. As a member of the Support team, you won’t face barriers to using your skills to improve the experience of our users and customers.
Some examples of our projects:
- A tool to automatically check a GitLab Omnibus install for known issues
- A solution that captures 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 integration that makes it easier to identify user accounts on GitLab.com
What you’ll do
- Support a mix of Self-managed and GitLab.com (SaaS) customers and resolve their issues via Zendesk tickets, merge requests, email and video conferencing.
- Collaborate with our Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success and Sales teams to build new features and fix bugs, define and shape the product goals, roadmap, priorities, and strategy.
- Create and update documentation based on customer interactions.
- Collaborate with Support team members (through Pairing Sessions) and other GitLab team members (for example, as a Support Stable Counterpart).
- Participate in regular rotations for weekday and weekend on-call coverage (daytime only), providing emergency support to our self-managed and SaaS customers and working with our SaaS Production team to coordinate incident communications.
What you’ll bring
- Experience owning customer-facing technical cases end-to-end, from initial inquiry and triage through coordination, documentation, and follow-up with engineering and product teams.
- Basic Proficiency working in Linux-based environments, including comfort with the command line and Git-based workflows.
- Familiarity with at least one scripting language (for example Ruby, Bash, Python, or similar) to automate tasks and support troubleshooting.
- Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, using logs, metrics, and diagnostic tools to investigate, reproduce, and help resolve complex issues.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly and empathetically to customers and coworkers with varying technical backgrounds.
About the team
Our Support team is distributed all over the world across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. We work on support tickets and help GitLab’s customers, and we also dig into the code and logs to find out why something isn’t working as expected. The collaboration here at GitLab is extraordinary and exciting. We solve complex problems together and participate in regular pairing sessions and 1:1s, as well as coffee chats and Slack conversations that help us stay connected.
Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see what we’re working on by visiting our Support team page. Additionally, you can see our company roadmap and listen to some of our meetings.
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.
- 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.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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