Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEA

• Join GitLab as a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, working fully remotely from the UK or elsewhere in Europe. • Work in a field-situated product engineering team focused on strategic customer outcomes, AI adoption and direct contributions to GitLab's product. • Partner directly with strategic customers and teams across Product, Engineering, Support, SRE, Solutions Architecture, Customer Success and Professional Services. • Diagnose and resolve high-impact adoption blockers, then turn what you learn into repeatable patterns for GitLab and its customers. • Keep the technical standards and contribution discipline of a Staff-level product engineer while working closely with customers. • Help shape the industry's approach to AI-assisted development through technical narratives and thought leadership.

• Bring Staff-level experience building, operating or improving complex production software systems. • Show experience contributing to large, mature product codebases with high standards for testing, maintainability, performance and security. • Use Ruby on Rails or Go to contribute directly to GitLab's product and adjacent systems. • Bring experience with AI-assisted software development, agentic workflows, AI governance or AI adoption in enterprise environments. • Diagnose complex system behaviour across application code, data stores, infrastructure, observability, networking and APIs. • Know modern DevSecOps workflows, including Git, merge requests, CI/CD, security controls and compliance needs. • Work with strategic customers and senior technical stakeholders in ambiguous, high-impact situations. • Coordinate across product, engineering, field and customer teams without formal authority, and communicate clearly in writing.

• Have direct experience with GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated or GitLab Self-Managed. • Bring production experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Vue, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker or Linux. • Know Git internals, repository performance, large-scale Git usage patterns or GitLab Runner behaviour. • Show experience writing whitepapers, technical talks, architecture frameworks or requests for comments. • Draw on a background in performance, site reliability, platform or infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems. • Have experience working in open source or highly asynchronous engineering environments.

• Contribute production-quality code to GitLab's product and adjacent systems, including bug fixes, features, integrations and performance improvements. • Work within GitLab's engineering processes, including merge requests, testing, review and documentation. • Engage with strategic customers when adoption, retention or executive confidence is materially at risk. • Diagnose problems across product behaviour, customer architecture, Git internals, CI/CD workflows, API usage and cloud environments. • Coordinate across Product, Engineering, SRE, Support and customer teams to drive resolution from discovery through handoff. • Drive governed, measurable adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform and resolve AI adoption blockers around governance, security and compliance. • Turn field learnings into reference architectures, documentation and reusable implementation patterns. • Contribute to Well-Architected Frameworks, whitepapers, webinars and technical strategy memos.

• Work fully remotely from the UK or elsewhere in Europe. • Take flexible paid time off. • Receive equity compensation and join the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. • Use the Growth and Development Fund to build your skills. • Take parental leave and benefit from health, finance and well-being support. • Join Team Member Resource Groups in an inclusive, high-performance culture.

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