Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic SDLC

An overview of this role GitLab’s Forward Deployed Engineering team is a field-situated product engineering function focused on strategic customer outcomes, artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, and direct contributions to GitLab’s product

This isnt a traditional field engineering, solutions architecture, or professional services role As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, youll work closely with customers while maintaining the technical standards and contribution discipline of a Staff-level product engineer.

Youll work where strategic customer urgency, complex technical ambiguity, and GitLab product execution intersect Youll partner directly with strategic customers and teams across Product, Engineering, Support, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Solutions Architecture (SA), Customer Success Architecture (CSA), Customer Success Management (CSM), and Professional Services

Youll diagnose and resolve high-impact adoption blockers, contribute production-quality fixes and features, and turn what you learn into repeatable patterns for GitLab and its customers.

Why this role exists Strategic customers sometimes encounter challenges that are too broad, deep, urgent, or cross-functional for any single team to own from start to finish. These challenges may involve product gaps, performan