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Forward Deployed Engineer

4 months, 1 week ago
Anywhere
Full-time
Lead
Solutions Engineer
Software Development
Ansible CI/CD GitLab Go Helm LLM Ruby on Rails Terraform YAML
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GitLab

GitLab

GitLab: The comprehensive DevOps platform revolutionizing software development with automation, AI workflows, and essential tools for efficient collaboration.

Internet Software & Services
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Founded 2014
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Description

  • Conduct deep technical discovery with strategic accounts to assess readiness, constraints, and adoption opportunities.
  • Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments involving migration, regulation, and product boundaries.
  • Partner with customer stakeholders and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases by business impact, feasibility, and long-term value.
  • Design and build proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators for SCM, 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 needed to remove blockers upstream.
  • Travel as needed for customer engagements, architecture workshops, and team coordination, up to 50%.

Requirements

  • Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or a similar customer-facing engineering role.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to read, reason about, and contribute to production systems.
  • Ideally experience with Ruby on Rails and/or Go.
  • Strong systems design and software architecture skills, including APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
  • Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline design, YAML, runners, and GitLab APIs.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and enterprise deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar approaches.
  • Working knowledge of large language models, agentic patterns, tool orchestration, and the practical limits of AI systems in production.
  • A track record of creating reusable technical assets and strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfort leading conversations with senior stakeholders across security, compliance, engineering, platform, and business teams in ambiguous enterprise environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Home office support.
  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Remote work globally, with location-based eligibility requirements for some roles.

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