Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

GitLab
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Presentation","Problem-solving"]

Staff-forward deployed engineering role focused on strategic AMER accounts, combining hands-on software engineering, platform architecture, and customer-facing delivery to accelerate adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform in self-managed and constrained environments. Design reusable architectures, drive technical discovery, and create durable assets while collaborating with product and engineering to address upstream blockers. Travel up to 50%.

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GitLab
GitLab
4 months ago

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Staff-forward deployed engineering role focused on strategic AMER accounts, combining hands-on software engineering, platform architecture, and customer-facing delivery to accelerate adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform in self-managed and constrained environments. Design reusable architectures, drive technical discovery, and create durable assets while collaborating with product and engineering to address upstream blockers. Travel up to 50%.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Conduct deep technical discovery in selected strategic accounts to assess platform readiness, evaluate constraints, and identify high-value adoption opportunities across GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
  • •Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments where platform migration, regulated requirements, and product boundaries intersect.
  • •Partner with customer stakeholders and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases based on business impact, technical feasibility, repeatability, and long-term platform value.
  • •Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators across source code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI-enabled workflows.
  • •Architect self-managed and enterprise deployments, including runners, access controls, network boundaries, observability, AI Gateway, model connectivity, and governance controls.
Travel: High travel

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer-facing engineering roles.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals, including reading, reasoning about, and contributing to production systems, ideally with Ruby on Rails and/or Go.
  • •Strong systems design and software architecture skills, with experience evaluating APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
  • •Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline design, YAML, runners, and GitLab APIs.
  • •Experience with infrastructure as code and enterprise deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar approaches.
Experience:Enterprise softwareDevOpsSaaS
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipPresentationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Ruby on RailsGoGitLab CI/CDYAMLGitLab APIsTerraformAnsibleHelmLarge language models

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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