Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, EMEA — AI-Driven SDLC

GitLab; Ireland; Remote; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer for the EMEA region. You will contribute to production code, address strategy-driven adoption, and collaborate across Product, Engineering, SA, CSA, CSM, and Professional Services to deliver durable customer outcomes.

You’ll diagnose adoption blockers, propose data-driven improvements, and help shape AI governance and SDLC patterns in enterprise environments. This is a remote, international role requiring deep technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 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, or adoption in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Coordinate across Product, Engineering, and customer teams to drive durable product improvements and reusable patterns.

Skills

Staff-level engineering

Ruby on Rails

Go

AI adoption

GitLab product knowledge

Strong communication

CI/CD

Platform/infrastructure

Tools

Git

GitLab CI/CD

Ruby on Rails

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis/Sidekiq

Vue/TypeScript

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer for the EMEA region. You will contribute to production code, address strategy-driven adoption, and collaborate across Product, Engineering, SA, CSA, CSM, and Professional Services to deliver durable customer outcomes.

You’ll diagnose adoption blockers, propose data-driven improvements, and help shape AI governance and SDLC patterns in enterprise environments. This is a remote, international role requiring deep technical leadership.