Forward Deployed Engnieer - META
Core
Strategic customer-facing engineer bridging product direction and hands-on engineering to drive adoption of GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex enterprise environments.
Role type
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (Strategic IC)
Builds
Reusable technical assets, reference architectures, deployment accelerators, and upstream product fixes for self-managed and regulated enterprise deployments.
Domain
DevSecOps / CI/CD / Enterprise Software / AI Agent Platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering fundamentals, systems design, software architecture, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure as code, large language models, agentic patterns, technical consulting
Preferred skills
Ruby on Rails, Go, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, YAML, GitLab APIs
Technologies
GitLab, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, Ruby on Rails, Go, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, YAML, GitLab APIs
Responsibilities
Conduct deep technical discovery in strategic accounts to assess platform readiness and identify adoption opportunities; Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments; Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, and reusable accelerators; Architect self-managed and enterprise deployments including runners, access controls, and network boundaries; Turn recurring field patterns into reusable assets like runbooks and reference architectures; Contribute code or design changes upstream to address blockers; Travel up to 50% for customer engagements.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence