Senior Support Engineer, AMER

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About the role

  • Senior support engineer helping GitLab customers troubleshoot Linux, GitLab, and CI/CD issues. Advising strategic customers and shaping fixes for GitLab’s DevSecOps platform.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical support to GitLab’s largest Self-managed, GitLab Dedicated, and GitLab.com customers
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex, critical, and sensitive support issues using Zendesk, logs, and Linux utilities such as strace through email and video conferencing
  • Build proactive relationships with key customer stakeholders and help prioritize technical blockers
  • Collaborate with Product, Development, Infrastructure, Customer Success, and Sales to drive bug fixes, influence feature development, and shape product goals and roadmap
  • Advise customers on GitLab and CI/CD implementations and incident mitigation
  • Create and improve documentation, knowledge articles, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Partner with Support Engineering colleagues through pairing sessions and stable counterpart relationships
  • Participate in hiring by reviewing applications and assessments and joining interviews

Requirements

  • Background managing complex, customer facing support cases end to end, from initial inquiry and triage through reproduction, escalation, and resolution
  • Advanced troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure, and integrations
  • Strong Linux systems administration knowledge (LFCE or RHCE equivalent), including performance analysis and low-level debugging tools
  • Practical experience with GitLab and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD), including deployment models and outages
  • Ability to write and maintain clear, reusable support content such as knowledge articles, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Proficiency with scripting languages such as Ruby or Bash
  • Familiarity with model-view-controller (MVC) frameworks, preferably Ruby on Rails
  • Effective communication skills for explaining complex technical topics and building rapport with customer stakeholders
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and technologies such as Kubernetes and serverless platforms
  • All team members expected to incorporate AI into daily workflows

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 type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$126,400 - $213,600 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

KubernetesLinuxRubyRuby on Rails

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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