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Forward Deployed Engineer - META
ICT
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Market rate
AED 35,000–AED 60,000/mo (AED 420,000–AED 720,000/yr)
Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).
About the Company
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic SDLC - (EMEA Only) An overview of this role GitLab's Forward Deployed Engineering team is a f
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, Support, SA, CSA, CSM, Professional Services, and customer technical teams to drive resolution from discovery through handoff.
- ● Provide recommendations grounded in data, traces, and systems analysis to improve GitLab usage, workflows, automation, and architecture.
- ● Create durable outcomes without establishing permanent dependency on Forward Deployed Engineering.
- ● AI adoption and agentic software development lifecycle
- ● Drive governed, measurable, and production-oriented adoption of GitLab Duo Agent Platform with strategic customers.
- ● Identify and resolve AI adoption blockers involving governance, usage controls, auditability, security, compliance, operating models, workflow design, and integrations.
- ● Develop customer-safe adoption patterns for the agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC), AI-assisted development, intent-based review, AI governance, and human-in-the-loop software delivery.
- ● Partner with Product, Engineering, Field, and Customer Success teams to turn AI adoption learning into reusable guidance and product improvements.
- ● Thought leadership
- ● Create technical narratives grounded in customer experience and product reality that can help shape the industry's approach.
- ● Contribute to Well-Architected Frameworks, whitepapers, webinars, reference architectures, technical strategy memos, and adoption frameworks.
Requirements
- ● Staff-level experience building, operating, or improving complex production software systems.
- ● Strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and the ability to contribute directly to GitLab's product and adjacent systems.
- ● Deep knowledge of modern DevSecOps workflows, including Git, merge requests, CI/CD, security controls, compliance needs, and enterprise software delivery.
- ● The ability to coordinate across product, engineering, field, and customer teams without formal authority.
- ● Strong written communication and sound judgment, including the ability to create technical narratives and distinguish reusable product work from customer-specific customization.
- ● Strongly preferred qualifications
- ● 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.
- ● A background in performance engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems.
- ● Technologies and domains
- ● Directly relevant technologies and domains include:
- ● Ruby on Rails
- ● AI-assisted development and the agentic SDLC
- ● Redis and Sidekiq
- ● Git internals
- ● GitLab CI/CD and Runner architecture
- ● Kubernetes and containers
- ● Linux, networking, observability, and performance analysis
- ● Vue and TypeScript
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