Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEA
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GitLabDevSecOps software
Remote Ireland; Remote, Austria; Remote, France; Remote, Germany; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, Spain; Remote, United KingdomFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLGitKubernetesRuby on RailsGoRESTful APIs
Requirements
- Bring Staff-level experience building, operating, or improving complex production software systems.
- Have experience contributing to large, mature product codebases with high standards for testing, maintainability, performance, and security.
- Have strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and the ability to contribute directly to GitLab’s product and adjacent systems.
- Have experience with AI-assisted software development, agentic workflows, AI governance, model evaluation, context management, prompt and workflow design, or enterprise AI adoption.
- Be able to diagnose complex system behavior across application code, data stores, infrastructure, observability, networking, APIs, and customer usage patterns.
- Have deep knowledge of modern DevSecOps workflows, including Git, merge requests, CI/CD, security controls, compliance needs, and enterprise software delivery.
- Have experience working with strategic customers or senior technical stakeholders in ambiguous, high-impact situations.
- Be able to coordinate across product, engineering, field, and customer teams without formal authority.
- Bring strong written communication and sound judgment, including the ability to create technical narratives and distinguish reusable product work from customer-specific customization.
- Preferred: Direct experience with GitLab as a platform, including GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, or GitLab Self-Managed.
- Preferred: Production experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Vue, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, or observability tools.
Responsibilities
- Contribute production-quality code to GitLab’s product and adjacent systems.
- Develop bug fixes, features, integrations, tooling, and performance improvements for strategic customer outcomes.
- Work through product engineering processes including issue discovery, merge requests, testing, review, documentation, and maintainability.
- Diagnose complex problems involving GitLab product behavior, customer architecture, Git internals, CI/CD, APIs, observability, infrastructure, networking, and cloud environments.
- Coordinate with GitLab teams and customer technical teams to drive resolution from discovery through handoff.
- Recommend improvements to GitLab usage, workflows, automation, and architecture based on data, traces, and systems analysis.
- Drive governed, measurable, production-oriented adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform with strategic customers.
- Resolve AI adoption blockers involving governance, usage controls, auditability, security, compliance, operating models, workflow design, and integrations.
- Create reusable guidance, reference architectures, adoption patterns, and technical thought-leadership materials.
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