Recruiter – R&D

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About the role

  • Technical Recruiter hiring engineering and product talent for GitLab’s DevSecOps platform. Managing technical searches, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, and offer negotiations globally.

Responsibilities

  • Manage full-cycle searches for Backend and Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers, delivering against recruiting goals and key metrics with accurate, timely documentation 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; challenge assumptions and escalate risks or blockers
  • Use talent-market research, compensation benchmarks, funnel metrics, and candidate feedback to shape search strategy and address hiring issues
  • Assess technical candidates on experience depth, scope and impact, problem-solving, open source or community contributions, and fit with GitLab teams and technology
  • Build research-based, diversity-focused sourcing plans across applicants, passive talent, referrals, internal talent, technical communities, and specialized talent pools
  • Deliver a thoughtful candidate experience through pipeline management, proactive communication, timely feedback, and offer negotiations explaining compensation, equity, and benefits
  • Improve recruiting practices by sharing learnings and reusable resources, using AI responsibly, and representing GitLab's mission, values, and culture

Requirements

  • 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, team structures, and how software is built and shipped
  • 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
  • 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, with attention to detail and candidate care
  • Experience with an applicant tracking system and recruiting tools such as Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Insights, SeekOut, or comparable platforms
  • Ability to evaluate AI-generated work, protect confidential information, and share responsible workflows with team members
  • Experience recruiting for DevSecOps, developer tools, or open source software is helpful, not required

Benefits

  • 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

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Open Source

Location requirements

RemoteIreland

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