Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

About the job

GitLab is looking for a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will contribute production-quality code and work closely with product and engineering to shape long-term product direction. You will also drive the governed adoption of the GitLab Duo Agent Platform with strategic customers.

What you will do

• Contribute production-quality code to GitLab's product and adjacent systems
• Develop bug fixes, features, integrations, tooling, and performance improvements
• Work within GitLab's product and engineering processes
• Partner with Product and Engineering for long-term product direction
• Turn blockers into durable product improvements and reference architectures
• Drive governed adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform with strategic customers

What you bring

• Staff-level experience building, operating, or improving complex production software systems
• Experience contributing to large, mature product codebases with high standards
• Strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience
• Experience with AI-assisted software development or agentic workflows
• Experience diagnosing complex system behavior across multiple layers
• Deep knowledge of modern DevSecOps workflows

Nice to have

• Direct experience with GitLab as a platform
• Production experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Vue, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, or observability tools
• Deep familiarity with Git internals or large-scale Git usage patterns
• Experience creating technical thought-leadership materials
• Background in performance engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems
• Experience working in open source or highly asynchronous engineering environments

What you get

• Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Summary by Personeel.com. The full job description and the application form are on GitLab's website (job-boards.greenhouse.io); Apply takes you straight there.

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