Field CTO, Public Sector

Overview

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to public sector customers and prospects, connecting DevSecOps strategy, security, and compliance goals to business and mission outcomes. This is an individual-contributor, customer-facing role focused on executive advisory work, pre-sales, and public sector market leadership.

What you'll do

• Advise customers during pre-sales engagements on DevSecOps, security, compliance, and strategic platform adoption.
• Deliver executive-level thought leadership for strategic public sector opportunities.
• Build relationships with public sector security, technology, and architecture leaders.
• Partner with marketing on public sector content and media engagement.
• Educate customers on the GitLab platform and support deployment discussions.
• Contribute to government working groups, standards discussions, and demonstrations.
• Share field feedback and support sales strategy, enablement, and reusable technical content.

What you'll need

• Expertise in DevSecOps strategy, application security, and compliance for regulated environments.
• Experience selling to, supporting, or working within the public sector.
• Experience independently creating and delivering technical thought leadership content.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with cloud computing and modern platform architectures.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills for executive and technical audiences.
• Experience in technical pre-sales, consulting, solutions architecture, or comparable customer-facing IT roles.

Nice to have

• Living in the Washington D.C. Metro area.

Details

• Fully remote, distributed, and asynchronous environment.
• Individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibilities.
• Remote location: United States.