Forward Deployed Engineer - META
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About the Role
GitLab seeks a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to work with strategic accounts in the APJ region, helping customers adopt GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex enterprise environments.
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Responsibilities
- Conduct deep technical discovery in selected strategic accounts to assess platform readiness, evaluate constraints, and identify high value adoption opportunities across GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform
- Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments where platform migration, regulated requirements, and product boundaries intersect
- Partner with customer stakeholders and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases based on business impact, technical feasibility, repeatability, and long term platform value
- Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators across source code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI enabled workflows
- Architect self managed and enterprise deployments, including runners, access controls, network boundaries, observability, AI Gateway, model connectivity, and governance controls
- Turn recurring field patterns into reusable assets such as runbooks, templates, design notes, technical guidance, product briefs, and reference architectures
- Contribute code, technical designs, or architecture changes when strategically necessary, in partnership with product and engineering
- Travel as needed for strategic customer engagements, architecture workshops, and team coordination, with expected travel up to 50%
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer facing engineering roles
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to read, reason about, and contribute to production systems, ideally with experience in Ruby on Rails and/or Go
- Strong systems design and software architecture skills, with experience evaluating APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs
- Hands on experience with GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform or similar DevSecOps platforms
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An Overview Of This Role
- As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at GitLab, you will work at the intersection of customer outcomes, product direction, and hands on engineering.
- This role is focused on strategic accounts in the APJ region, where you will help customers adopt GitLab and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex enterprise environments.
- You will guide deep technical discovery, design practical adoption paths, and build reusable solutions that help customers move from early platform use into broader CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI enabled workflows.
What You’ll Do
- Conduct deep technical discovery in selected strategic accounts to assess platform readiness, evaluate constraints, and identify high value adoption opportunities.
- Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments where platform migration, regulated requirements, and product boundaries intersect.
- Partner with customer stakeholders and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases based on business impact, technical feasibility, repeatability, and long term platform value.
- Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators across source code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI enabled workflows.
- Architect self managed and enterprise deployments, including runners, access controls, network boundaries, observability, AI Gateway, model connectivity, and governance controls.
- Turn recurring field patterns into reusable assets such as runbooks, templates, design notes, technical guidance, product briefs, and reference architectures.
- Contribute code, technical designs, or architecture changes when strategically necessary, in partnership with product and engineering.
- Travel as needed for strategic customer engagements, architecture workshops, and team coordination, with expected travel up to 50%.
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer facing engineering roles.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to read, reason about, and contribute to production systems, ideally with experience in Ruby on Rails and/or Go.
- Strong systems design and software architecture skills, with experience evaluating APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Hands on experience with GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform or similar DevSecOps platforms.
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