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GitLab is seeking a Technical Recruiter to build the engineering and product teams behind its DevSecOps platform. As an individual contributor, you will partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Security, and UX to own full-cycle recruiting searches from intake through offer close.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage full-cycle searches for Backend/Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers, tracking progress and metrics in Greenhouse
- Lead intake and kickoff conversations to align hiring teams on role scope, technical requirements, team context, interview plans, and timelines
- Partner with hiring teams on structured, equitable technical interviews with clear competencies and actionable feedback; escalate risks or blockers early
- Use talent-market research, compensation benchmarks, funnel metrics, and candidate feedback to shape search strategy and address hiring issues
- Assess technical candidates on depth of experience, scope and impact of past work, problem-solving ability, and open source or community contributions
- Build research-based, diversity-focused sourcing plans balancing applicants, passive talent, referrals, internal candidates, and targeted outreach across technical communities
- Deliver thoughtful candidate experience through disciplined pipeline management, proactive communication, timely feedback, and offer negotiations that clearly explain compensation, equity, and benefits
- Improve recruiting practices by sharing learnings, using AI responsibly, and representing GitLab's mission and values
The role is part of a globally distributed, remote-first Talent Acquisition team focused on Research & Development hiring. Team members share learnings and create reusable resources to improve hiring quality and consistency.
Requirements:
- Full-cycle recruiting experience in competitive technical talent markets, including offer and compensation conversations
- Technical recruiting experience or strong interest in learning engineering and product disciplines, tech stacks, team structures, and software development/shipping
- Developing advisor skills: building stakeholder trust, influencing without authority, and managing hiring team expectations
- Experience building proactive, diversity-focused sourcing strategies and balanced pipelines for hard-to-fill or specialized roles
- Data-informed approach that turns funnel insights into practical actions
- Strong organization across multiple requisitions with clear written and verbal communication across time zones, attention to detail, and candidate care
- Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruiting tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Insights, SeekOut, or comparable platforms; ability to evaluate AI-generated work and share responsible workflows
- Experience recruiting for DevSecOps, developer tools, or open source software is helpful but not required
