GitLab
Fullstack Engineer, Contributor Success, Strategy
Job Summary
This role as a Full-Stack Engineer at GitLab focuses on developing integrations between GitLab and open-source AI coding tools, facilitating seamless contributions and onboarding for developers using these tools. The candidate will build and maintain APIs, connectors, and IDE extensions primarily in Python, TypeScript, and other languages, while collaborating with internal and external teams. Strong experience in backend and frontend development, API design, and open-source community engagement are essential. The position emphasizes innovation in AI-assisted workflows and supports GitLab’s mission to empower contributors worldwide through technical excellence and collaboration.
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Job Description
GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.
An overview of this role
The way software is built has fundamentally changed. A new generation of developers builds with and alongside AI, and GitLab has a strategic imperative to win this market. This is a pivotal moment to secure our position as the leading DevSecOps platform for the next decade.
As a Full-Stack Engineer within the Contributor Success team, your mission is to build the bridges that connect the vibrant ecosystem of AI coding tools directly to GitLab.
You will meet the next wave of developers where they are—in tools like Replit, Continue.dev, Aider and many more! You will create the unavoidable on-ramp that graduates them to the full power of GitLab's single platform. You will be on the front lines, solving the critical challenge of abstracting GitLab's broad capabilities to make its power accessible to millions of new users.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain robust integrations between GitLab and leading open-source AI coding tools (e.g., Continue.dev, Aider, OpenHands) and strategic partner platforms, making it easier for developers using these tools to contribute to GitLab-hosted projects.
- Design, build, and iterate on a reusable connector framework using modern best practices, focusing on standards like OAuth 2.0 and efficient API client design for GitLab's APIs.
- Contribute directly to the codebase of target open-source AI tools (primarily in Python and TypeScript), enhancing their capabilities and ensuring seamless, high-quality integration with GitLab.
- Provide expert technical guidance and support to our partners and the broader open-source community, fostering a collaborative environment and improving the contributor experience for those integrating with GitLab.
- Collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, including Business Development, Product Management, and the GitLab for Education program to scope technical requirements and build effective "graduation paths" for new developers.
- Implement contributor efficiency tooling improvements by making GitLab the seamless backend for AI-assisted development workflows, thus simplifying how users of AI tools interact with and contribute to GitLab projects.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for both backend services (primarily Python or Go for specific integration components) and frontend components (primarily Vue.js, or TypeScript for IDE extensions) with the goal to also learn Ruby on Rails and contribute to GitLab.
What You’ll Bring
- Solid Full-Stack Experience (3-5 years):
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Ruby (especially Rails), or Go. Python is key for tools like Aider and OpenHands.
- Strong frontend skills, particularly with TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frameworks like Vue.js or React. TypeScript is crucial for VS Code extensions (like Continue.dev) and the frontend of tools like OpenHands.
- Demonstrable experience building and consuming RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, with a proven ability to create robust and scalable integrations between disparate systems.
- Deep understanding of Git and modern version control workflows, essential for both internal development and effective open-source contributions.
- Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 and other authentication/authorization mechanisms for secure inter-system communication.
- AI Tooling & Integration Acumen:
- A keen interest and ideally direct experience in the AI-assisted software development space, including familiarity with how AI coding assistants (like Continue.dev, Aider) operate and integrate with LLMs.
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs, particularly those related to LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama) or developer productivity tools. This includes understanding context management for LLMs.
- Basic understanding of prompt engineering principles and the ability to iterate on prompts to achieve desired AI outputs for integration purposes.
- IDE Extension & Open Source Affinity:
- Experience or a strong, demonstrable interest in developing extensions for IDEs like VS Code (using TypeScript) or JetBrains IDEs (using Kotlin/Java) is highly desirable, directly relevant for tools like Continue.dev.
- Experience contributing to or actively working with open-source projects (like those mentioned), understanding community dynamics, collaborative development practices (PRs, issues, discussions), and licensing (e.g., Apache 2.0, MIT).
- Contributor Success Mindset & Skills:
- A problem-solving mindset, especially when tackling the unique challenges of integrating AI into complex systems and debugging AI-generated or AI-influenced code to improve the developer/contributor experience.
- Proven adaptability and a passion for continuous learning, essential for staying current in the rapidly evolving AI and developer tool landscape.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal teams, external partners, and diverse open-source communities to guide and support their contributions.
- Ability to understand and explain why a solution works, not just how, and a commitment to writing robust, reusable, and maintainable code that benefits the broader community.
About the team
The goal of the team is to lead the Contributor program, GitLab for Open Source program, GitLab for Education program and in addition support and attract customers who co-create GitLab with us, and increase the efficiency of our contribution process through technical and process improvements to sustain our ambition of 170+ contributors with merged MRs per month to GitLab. This is aligned with GitLab’s mission to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.
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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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