Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer guiding strategic enterprise customers in adopting GitLab and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex, regulated, and self-managed environments.
Role type
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (Strategic Account)
Builds
Reusable technical assets, reference architectures, deployment accelerators, and bounded proofs for AI Gateway, identity, runners, and governance controls.
Domain
DevSecOps, CI/CD, Enterprise Software, AI/LLM Agentic Patterns
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, Systems design and architecture, GitLab CI/CD and YAML, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm), Large Language Models and agentic patterns, Technical consulting
Preferred skills
Ruby on Rails, Go, Enterprise security and compliance
Technologies
GitLab Duo Agent Platform, GitLab APIs, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, AI Gateway
Responsibilities
Conduct deep technical discovery to assess platform readiness and identify adoption opportunities, Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments, Design and build reusable accelerators and deployment patterns, Architect self-managed and enterprise deployments including network boundaries and governance controls, Turn recurring field patterns into reusable assets like runbooks and reference architectures, Contribute code and architecture changes to solve upstream blockers, Travel up to 50% for customer engagements and workshops
