EMEA Staff Forward-Deployed Engineer — AI & Product

GitLab; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to work with strategic customers, contributing production-quality code and driving AI adoption within the product ecosystem. You will collaborate across Product, Engineering, SRE, Support, and Customer Success teams to resolve blockers and deliver durable, reusable solutions in a field-focused role.

The role emphasizes governance, AI-enabled SDLC patterns, and strong technical leadership, with an aim to stabilize urgent adoption challenges

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, 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, model evaluation, context management, prompt and workflow design, or AI 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.
• 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.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Go

AI adoption

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Sidekiq

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to work with strategic customers, contributing production-quality code and driving AI adoption within the product ecosystem. You will collaborate across Product, Engineering, SRE, Support, and Customer Success teams to resolve blockers and deliver durable, reusable solutions in a field-focused role.

The role emphasizes governance, AI-enabled SDLC patterns, and strong technical leadership, with an aim to stabilize urgent adoption challenges