# Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,200-$279,900 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Solutions Architect, AI Subject Matter Expert to act as the technical authority for a product group on prioritized opportunities. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, consulting, or software engineering, with deep, hands-on expertise in one domain: application security testing, supply chain security, and compliance; scalable cloud and hybrid platforms; large CI/CD environments and source code migrations; or production AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities:

- Act as the technical authority for your product group on prioritized opportunities, from discovery and architecture through trials and PoV evaluations.

- Lead technical deep dives, workshops, and executive briefings that connect product capabilities to business outcomes and explain how GitLab differs from competing solutions.

- Design and improve standardized PoV templates with clear, repeatable success criteria.

- Equip account teams for product launches with Product Management and Product Marketing.

- Serve as the escalation point for Account SAs and Post-Sales Solutions Architects (Post-Sales SAs) on complex product questions, integrations, and objections.

- Bring structured field feedback, competitive insights, and customer requirements to Product Management and Engineering with the wider SME team.

- Build reference architectures, demo environments, competitive battlecards, PoV playbooks, and enablement content.

Requirements:

- Substantial experience in technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, consulting, or software engineering.

- Deep, hands-on expertise in one domain: application security testing, supply chain security, and compliance; scalable cloud and hybrid platforms; large CI/CD environments and source code migrations; or production AI-assisted development.

- Practical expertise in agentic and AI-assisted development workflows.

- Experience winning technical decisions on large, complex enterprise opportunities through structured Proof of Concept (PoC) or PoV evaluations.

- Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider.

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

- Home office support

## Skills

### Required
- Git
- CI/CD
- containers
- Kubernetes
- cloud platforms
- application security testing
- supply chain security
- compliance
- AI-assisted development

### Nice to have
- public speaking
- published technical content
- open source contributions
- relevant certifications in Kubernetes, cloud architecture, or security

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