GitLab
Senior Developer Advocate
Senior advocate who demos and explains GitLab's AI agent capabilities through content, community engagement, and customer conversations across US and Canadian time zones.
Captured October 2026Still open as of Oct 11, 2026 ↗
The role
This individual contributor sits within the Developer Advocacy group and focuses on showing the product working in real settings. The position centers on deep familiarity with GitLab's agentic AI features, turning that knowledge into videos, written pieces, and talks, and feeding field observations back to product teams.
What you would do
- Keep a working knowledge of the platform's AI agent features and surface practical scenarios worth demonstrating
- Build product content such as videos, articles, slide decks, and short social clips showing use in the UI and terminal
- Own video production from scripting and recording through editing, coordinating with a specialist team on larger projects
- Present demos and join analyst briefings
- Run webinars and hold conversations with customers
- Stay active in the forum, chat community, and social channels, representing the company at relevant events
- Field technical questions routed from sales and co-develop educational material with support, sales, and product
- Test new features and relay hands-on feedback to product groups
What they asked for
- Practical engineering background spanning the stages after code is committed
- Working understanding of AI applied to software delivery, including building and running agent-based systems
- Clear communication of technical topics on camera, in writing, and on stage
- Comfort with developer-focused social networks and their culture
- Self-starter who spots new topics and follows relevant voices without prompting
- Prior experience engaging customers, developers, or open technical communities
- Able to work autonomously while partnering across go-to-market, engineering, and product
Nice to have
- Contributes to technical research on the developer tooling market
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