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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
GitLab
Remote · United StatesSalary not disclosedfull-timeGitLab Careers
An overview of this role GitLab’s Forward Deployed Engineering team is a field-situated product engineering function focused on strategic customer outcomes, artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, and direct contributions to GitLab’s product. This isn't a traditional field engineering, solutions architecture, or professional services role.
Responsibilities
- Product contribution
- Contribute production-quality code to GitLab’s product and adjacent systems.
- Develop bug fixes, features, integrations, tooling, and performance improvements when strategic customer outcomes require direct engineering work.
- Work within GitLab’s product and engineering processes, including issue discovery, merge request creation, testing, review, documentation, and maintainability.
- Partner with Product and Engineering so customer-driven solutions support long-term product direction rather than becoming one-off customizations.
- Turn blockers discovered in the field into durable product improvements, reference architectures, documentation, and repeatable implementation patterns.
- Strategic technical stewardship
- Engage with strategically important customers when adoption, retention, executive confidence, or public trust is materially at risk.
- Diagnose complex problems across GitLab product behavior, customer architecture, Git internals, CI/CD workflows, API usage, observability, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
- Coordinate across Product, Engineering, SRE
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Posted
- 20 Jul 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days