Legal Engineer

An overview of this role

As a Legal Engineer, you'll help GitLab's Legal & Corporate Affairs team to translate between what the legal team needs and what systems can do, between how our team members think about problems and how engineers think about logic, between a manual workflow that's slowing the business down and an automated one that isn't. You'll own technical components of the LACA stack, build the AI-powered workflows and integrations that enable us to scale, and bring enough legal process knowledge to design solutions that enable better outcomes for our customers.  Reporting to the Sr. Director, Strategy & Legal Operations, you'll work across legal, business, and technical teams to design and maintain tools for contract workflows, compliance automation, legal analytics, and system integrations.

This is a strong fit if you're excited by translating legal requirements into practical systems and improving how work gets done. In your first year, you'll focus on building AI-enabled workflows, integrating and implementing new systems, and creating better visibility into legal operations through data, reporting, and automation. You'll also help bring AI-powered capabilities into legal processes, including contract review and decision support within tools such as Ironclad CLM and related platforms.

What you’ll do

• Design and build automated workflows for legal tasks such as contract review, non-disclosure agreement routing, intellectual property enforcement, compliance monitoring, data retention, inventorying, and data subject request processing.
• Develop custom AI prompts, decision trees, and logic layers that support a wide array of AI use-cases within our connected tools.
• Partner with internal AI and machine learning teams to embed legal logic into broader company automation and tooling.
• Build self-service resources, including intake forms, playbooks, and decision trees, that reduce ad hoc legal requests and improve team efficiency.
• Own technical administration for parts of the legal technology stack, including contract lifecycle management, e-billing, compliance platforms, and workflow automation tools.
• Evaluate new legal technology solutions, from prototyping and vendor assessment through integration and user adoption.
• Collaborate with Sales, Finance, Security, Trust & Safety, and People teams to streamline legal dependencies and implement scalable system integrations with platforms such as Salesforce and Zuora.
• Create dashboards, reporting infrastructure, and data models that support legal analytics, leadership visibility, compliance automation, and customer-facing guidance on product-specific metrics.

What you’ll bring

• Experience building, configuring, or significantly customizing legal technology systems beyond basic administration.
• Knowledge of in-house legal workflows, including contracts, compliance, intake, and matter management.
• Ability to work with technical tools such as contract lifecycle management platforms, workflow automation tools, SQL or database querying, application programming interface integrations, or scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript.
• Comfort translating between legal, technical, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into clear technical solutions.
• Experience supporting cross-functional work with teams such as Sales, Finance, Security, Trust & Safety, or People.
• Ability to build structured reporting or data solutions that support operational decisions, compliance processes, or legal analytics.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills for success in a remote, largely asynchronous environment.
• Openness to transferable experience from legal operations, legal technology, technical program work, or other roles that combine systems thinking with legal process improvement.

About the team

The Legal & Corporate Affairs team supports GitLab by helping the business move efficiently while managing legal and compliance risk. Within that function, this role focuses on the systems, workflows, and data infrastructure that power legal operations, from contract lifecycle management and e-billing to compliance automation and reporting. You'll work with a distributed group of legal and cross-functional partners across regions, using asynchronous collaboration to design solutions that scale across the company. The team is focused on reducing manual work, improving self-service, and building dependable integrations between legal systems and GitLab's broader business tools so legal support is easier to access and easier to measure.

How GitLab will support you

• 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

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.