Recruiter, R&D - GitLab

About GitLab

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.

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.

Overview of the Role

As a Technical Recruiter, you'll help GitLab build the engineering and product teams behind our DevSecOps platform. In this individual contributor role, you'll partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Security, and UX and own searches from intake through close. You'll build inclusive pipelines and use data and market insight to guide hiring decisions, while growing into a trusted talent advisor.

What You'll Do

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage full-cycle searches for roles such as Backend and Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers, delivering against recruiting goals with accurate documentation in Greenhouse.
• Hiring Partner Alignment: Lead intake and kickoff conversations to align hiring teams on role scope, technical requirements, team context, interview plans, and timelines.
• Equitable Interviewing: Partner with hiring teams on structured, equitable technical interviews with clear competencies and actionable feedback.
• Market Insights: Use talent-market research, compensation benchmarks, funnel metrics, and candidate feedback to shape search strategy.
• Candidate Assessment: Assess technical candidates on depth of experience, scope and impact of past work, problem-solving, and open source or community contributions.
• Sourcing Strategy: Build research-based, diversity-focused sourcing plans that balance applicants, passive talent, referrals, and targeted outreach.
• Candidate Experience: Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience through disciplined pipeline management, proactive communication, timely feedback, and offer negotiations.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve recruiting practices by sharing learnings, using AI responsibly, and representing GitLab's mission and values.

What You'll Bring

• Full-cycle recruiting experience in competitive technical talent markets, including offer and compensation conversations.
• Technical recruiting experience, or a strong interest in learning engineering and product disciplines, tech stacks, and team structures.
• 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 specialized roles.
• A data-informed approach that turns funnel insights into practical actions.
• Strong organization across multiple requisitions and clear written and verbal communication across time zones.
• Experience with an applicant tracking system and recruiting tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Insights, SeekOut, or comparable platforms.
• Experience recruiting for DevSecOps, developer tools, or open source software is helpful but not required.

Benefits & Support

• 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