Legal Engineer

Company: GitLab
Industry: Legal & Compliance
Location: USA

<p>GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.</p>
<p>The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p>
<p>*<em>Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</em></p>
<strong>An overview of this role</strong>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<strong>What you’ll do</strong>
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<li>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.</li>
<li>Develop custom AI prompts, decision trees, and logic layers that support a wide array of AI use-cases within our connected tools.</li>
<li>Partner with internal AI and machine learning teams to embed legal logic into broader company automation and tooling.</li>
<li>Build self-service resources, including intake forms, playbooks, and decision trees, that reduce ad hoc legal requests and improve team efficiency.</li>
<li>Own technical administration for parts of the legal technology stack, including contract lifecycle management, e-billing, compliance platforms, and workflow automation tools.</li>
<li>Evaluate new legal technology solutions, from prototyping and vendor assessment through integration and user adoption.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Create dashboards, reporting infrastructure, and data models that support legal analytics, leadership visibility, compliance automation, and customer-facing guidance on product-specific metrics.</li>
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<strong>What you’ll bring</strong>
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<li>Experience building, configuring, or significantly customizing legal technology systems beyond basic administration.</li>
<li>Knowledge of in-house legal workflows, including contracts, compliance, intake, and matter management.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Comfort translating between legal, technical, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into clear technical solutions.</li>
<li>Experience supporting cross-functional work with teams such as Sales, Finance, Security, Trust & S…