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How GitLab hires

Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
50 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
44%
Reposted roles
0%

GitLab scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 44% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 50 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

GitLab is a company founded in 2011 around an open source alternative to GitHub that grew into a single application covering the whole software delivery lifecycle. Its platform combines source control, code review, continuous integration and deployment, package registries, security scanning and project planning in one product rather than a set of integrated tools, which appeals to organisations wanting fewer vendors in the toolchain. Listed on Nasdaq since 2021, the company is known for operating with no offices at all and for publishing an unusually detailed public handbook describing how it runs itself.

News

News InfoQ 25 days ago
GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry
GitLab has expanded GitLab Duo Self-Hosted to support models deployed through Microsoft Foundry, letting organizations run GitLab
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News The Motley Fool 27 days ago
GitLab CFO's Stake Drops by Over 30,000 Shares Worth $1.6 Million After the Stock Hit a 52-Week High
The provider of a software development lifecycle platform reported a notable insider disposition after its stock price soared.
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News GitLab 29 days ago
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News GitLab 30 days ago
Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Starting October 19, GitLab.com rate limits will align with your subscription. Sign in to unlock higher limits. Premium/Ultimate changes arrive in January.
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News gitlab.steamos.cloud 1 month ago
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at GitLab over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
174
Postings analysed
410
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Ruby26%
Go18%
Python15%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails14%
Vue.js5%
LangGraph2%
RSpec2%
Databases
PostgreSQL14%
ClickHouse4%
Redis3%
Snowflake2%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes18%
GCP11%
AWS10%
Linux6%
AI & ML
LLM5%
Claude4%
ChatGPT<1%
Gemini<1%
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Full GitLab tech stack 174 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$235k
Typical range
$66k – $410k
Open positions
100
78 Jobs
Junior 1.3%
Middle 3.8%
Senior 28.2%
Staff 33.3%
Principal 9%
Architect 24.4%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $105k $105k
Middle 3 $173k $150k – $194k
Senior 22 $185k $104k – $410k
Staff 26 $259k $214k – $314k
Principal 7 $346k $275k – $380k
Architect 19 $249k $194k – $346k
Highest paying role Senior Director, Global SME Solutions Architecture $410k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at GitLab By role, level and city, against the market · 100 jobs with pay

Products

Dedicated
A single-tenant hosted instance for organisations with isolation requirements. It suits regulated customers who cannot use shared infrastructure.
gitlab.com
Duo
Artificial intelligence assistance for code suggestion, review and vulnerability explanation. It runs across the whole platform.
gitlab.com
Security Scanning
Static analysis, dependency and container scanning built into pipelines. Results appear in the same merge request as the code.
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CI/CD
Continuous integration and deployment pipelines defined alongside the code. It is the most heavily used paid capability.
gitlab.com
Source Control and Review
Git repository hosting with merge requests and code review workflows. It is the entry point for most users.
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People

Sid Sijbrandij
Co-founder and Executive Chair
Sid Sijbrandij co-founded the company in 2011 and led it as chief executive through its listing. He established the all-remote model and the public handbook.
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Co-founder
Dmitriy Zaporozhets wrote the original open source project in Ukraine and co-founded the company around it. He worked on the core product for many years.
Bill Staples
Chief Executive Officer
Bill Staples became chief executive in 2023 after leading New Relic. He has focused the company on artificial intelligence features and enterprise adoption.
Dmitry Zaporozhets
Executive Officer, Director
Sytse Sijbrandij
Executive Officer, Director
Paul Machle
Executive Officer
Bruce Armstrong
Director
Villi Iltchev
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
226
77 opened / 88 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
51 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
24% ▲
Backend
22% ▼
Solutions
8% ▲
DevOps
6% ▲
Product
6%
Support
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+40 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added LLM Evaluation to stack Oct 2026
Added Outlook to stack Oct 2026
Added Laravel to stack Oct 2026
Added Flask to stack Oct 2026
Added FastAPI to stack Oct 2026
Added AWS Lambda to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack Oct 2026
Added Splunk to stack Oct 2026
Added Rollup to stack Oct 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Sep 2026
Added cert-manager to stack Sep 2026
Added CWE to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
3
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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San Francisco United States
HQ
268 Bush Street #350, San Francisco, CA, 94104, US
company site
Bengaluru India
Engineering / R&D
India
27 open roles 44 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 30% remote 1000-5000 est. staff
hires for Leadership, Backend, DevOps
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Remote hub
Singapore
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 100% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Customer Success, Sales, Solutions
seen since Mar 2026 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$166k – $249k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 5+ years exp • PhD • United States
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≈ $93k – $165k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain) • PhD • France • Germany • Netherlands • Spain • United Kingdom
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Kubernetes
GitHub
GitLab
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$166k – $280k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • PhD • United States
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Kubernetes
GitHub
GitLab
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Equity • In office • PhD • Bengaluru
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
Ruby
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
npm
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
GitLab
Cybersecurity
CWE
OWASP
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≈ $17k – $40k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (India) • PhD • Bengaluru
CI/CD
GitLab
Management
Agile
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$115k – $194k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada, UTC-8 – UTC-5 hours) • PhD • Canada • United States
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
FinOps
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Equity • In office • PhD • Bengaluru
Python
Go
JavaScript
LangGraph
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
npm
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTofu
CI/CD
GitLab
Cybersecurity
CVE
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≈ $19k – $45k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • PhD • Bengaluru
Go
Ruby
GitLab
IAM
Cybersecurity
LDAP
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≈ $22k – $54k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • PhD • Bengaluru
SQL
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitLab
Analytics
Tableau
Looker
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Equity • In office • PhD • Bengaluru
Go
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
Google Cloud Spanner
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Envoy
Prometheus
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Grafana
SRE
Progressive Delivery
GitLab
IAM
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$168k – $286k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • PhD • Canada • United States
CI/CD
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$203k – $346k per year • Equity • Remote (United States, Canada) • PhD • Canada • United States
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
Knowledge Graph
DevOps
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Financials

Est. Annual Revenue
$955.2M
2026
Revenue +26% YoY
Estimate Modelled from public signals, not audited accounts - read it as an order of magnitude.
Est. Annual Revenue, 2020 — 2026
YearEstimateLowHigh
2020 $81.2M $81.2M $81.2M
2021 $152.2M $152.2M $152.2M
2022 $252.7M $252.7M $252.7M
2023 $424.3M $424.3M $424.3M
2024 $579.9M $579.9M $579.9M
2025 $759.2M $759.2M $759.2M
2026 $955.2M $955.2M $955.2M