Recruiter, R&D

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle searches for roles such as Backend and Frontend Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Security Engineers, Data Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers, delivering against agreed 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, with senior team guidance as needed.
• Partner with hiring teams on structured, equitable technical interviews with clear competencies and actionable feedback; challenge assumptions and escalate risks or blockers early.
• Use talent-market research, compensation benchmarks, funnel metrics, and candidate feedback to shape search strategy and address hiring issues.
• Assess technical candidates on depth of experience, scope and impact of past work, problem-solving, and open source or community contributions, and how well their skills fit GitLab's teams and technology.

Key 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.