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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEA
DevOpsRemote — EMEA, Ireland, Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom
Published on 2026-11-12
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About this role
Work with strategic customers to diagnose complex GitLab adoption and operational challenges, contribute production-quality product fixes and features, and turn field learnings into reusable guidance. The role also drives governed adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform and coordinates across customer-facing and product teams to achieve durable outcomes.
About the company
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.
The team
Forward Deployed Engineering
Stack
Ruby on RailsGoPostgreSQLRedisSidekiqVueTypeScriptKubernetes
What you'll do
- Contribute production-quality code, bug fixes, features, integrations, and performance improvements.
- Diagnose complex customer issues across GitLab, infrastructure, CI/CD, APIs, and cloud environments.
- Coordinate cross-functionally to resolve strategic customer challenges and transition ongoing ownership.
- Drive governed, measurable adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
- Develop reusable implementation patterns, reference architectures, documentation, and technical thought leadership.
What we're looking for
- Staff-level experience building, operating, or improving complex production systems.
- Experience contributing to mature product codebases with strong testing, maintainability, performance, and security standards.
- Strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and ability to contribute directly to GitLab products.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, AI governance, or enterprise AI adoption.
- Deep knowledge of DevSecOps workflows, including Git, merge requests, CI/CD, security, and compliance.
- Ability to diagnose complex system behavior and coordinate across teams without formal authority.
- Strong written communication and judgment in distinguishing reusable product work from customer-specific customization.
Nice to have
- Direct experience with GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, or GitLab Self-Managed.
- Experience with Git internals, repository performance, or GitLab Runner behavior.
- Background in performance engineering, SRE, platform or infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems.
- Experience creating technical thought-leadership materials or working in open source and asynchronous environments.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
- Team member resource groups