Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Remote & Enterprise AI

Software Careers; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 293,793 - 440,690; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

Software Careers is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to work with GitLab in a remote setting from the United Arab Emirates. In this role, you will bridge customer outcomes and product direction, focusing on complex enterprise deployments. Your responsibilities will include conducting deep technical discoveries and leading architectural designs.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software engineering, particularly with GitLab CI/CD, and will possess excellent communication skills for working with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering or technical consulting roles.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD and YAML.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct technical discovery in strategic accounts to assess platform readiness.
• Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments.
• Design and build reusable assets for CI/CD and AI-enabled workflows.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Systems design and software architecture

GitLab CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Strong communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Ruby on Rails

Go

Job description

Software Careers is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to work with GitLab in a remote setting from the United Arab Emirates. In this role, you will bridge customer outcomes and product direction, focusing on complex enterprise deployments. Your responsibilities will include conducting deep technical discoveries and leading architectural designs.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software engineering, particularly with GitLab CI/CD, and will possess excellent communication skills for working with senior stakeholders.