Strategic Field Engineer & Deployment Architect

Software Careers; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to enhance customer outcomes and assist in adopting innovative solutions across enterprise environments. This remote position focuses on strategic accounts, emphasizing technical excellence and reusable architectures.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software engineering, expertise in GitLab’s technology stack, and the ability to engage deeply with clients for successful platform implementations.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, or customer-facing engineering roles is required.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and skills in systems design are essential.
• Experience with GitLab APIs and CI/CD pipelines is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep technical discovery in strategic accounts to assess platform readiness.
• Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments.
• Design and build reusable assets and deployment patterns.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Systems design

GitLab CI/CD

Technical consulting

Infrastructure as code

Education

Experience in software engineering or platform architecture

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Ruby on Rails

Go

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to enhance customer outcomes and assist in adopting innovative solutions across enterprise environments. This remote position focuses on strategic accounts, emphasizing technical excellence and reusable architectures.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in software engineering, expertise in GitLab’s technology stack, and the ability to engage deeply with clients for successful platform implementations.