GitLab CEO says layoffs and infra overhaul will help it meet the agentic era

GitLab says it's cutting an undisclosed number of staff by June and rearchitecting its entire platform to prepare for the agentic era.

In the memo titled "GitLab Act 2" sent to staff of Monday, GitLab’s CEO Bill Staples said the company, which currently employs more than 2,500 people, will be downsizing, but without sharing exactly how many employees would be cut. 

The layoffs will be finalised on June 1 after a “voluntary separation window” - giving staff who want to leave the option to do so first – as part of a wider restructuring of the org chart and GitLab’s platform architecture.

All this in the name of positioning the company to capitalise on AI agents, according to Staples’s note which has a read time of 20 minutes.