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Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

GitLab · Remote Ireland; Remote, France; Remote, Germany; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, United Kingdom

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
GitLab's roles stay open a median of 76 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of GitLab's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at GitLab
high
229 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
Hiring momentum
338 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GitLab's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GitLab.

About this role

As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at GitLab, you'll be part of a team that directly engages with strategic customers to address complex technical challenges and improve product adoption. Your role will involve diagnosing issues, contributing production-quality code, and collaborating with various teams to create durable solutions and enhance GitLab's offerings. You'll also focus on driving AI adoption and developing reusable guidance based on customer experiences.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.

What you need

  • Staff-level experience building, operating, or improving complex production software systems.
  • Experience contributing to large, mature product codebases with high standards for testing, maintainability, performance, and security.
  • Strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and the ability to contribute directly to GitLab’s product and adjacent systems.
  • Experience with AI-assisted software development, agentic workflows, AI governance, model evaluation, context management, prompt and workflow design, or AI adoption in enterprise environments.
  • Experience diagnosing complex system behavior across application code, data stores, infrastructure, observability, networking, APIs, and customer usage patterns.
  • Deep knowledge of modern DevSecOps workflows, including Git, merge requests, CI/CD, security controls, compliance needs, and enterprise software delivery.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with GitLab as a platform, including GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, or GitLab Self-Managed.
  • Production experience with Ruby on Rails, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Vue, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, or observability tools.
  • Deep familiarity with Git internals, repository performance, large-scale Git usage patterns, or GitLab Runner behavior.
  • Experience creating technical thought-leadership materials, such as whitepapers, technical talks, architecture frameworks, requests for comments, public technical writing, or internal strategy documents.
  • A background in performance engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems.

What you get

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Worth weighing

  • Remote role with potential location-based eligibility requirements.
  • No salary information provided in the posting.
  • Role involves significant customer interaction and high-impact problem-solving, which may not suit everyone.

Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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