# Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer to work remotely. As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at GitLab, you will work at the intersection of customer outcomes, product direction, and hands-on engineering. This role is focused on strategic accounts, where you will help customers adopt GitLab and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform in complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct deep technical discovery in selected strategic accounts to assess platform readiness, evaluate constraints, and identify high-value adoption opportunities across GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform.

- Lead architecture and delivery design for complex enterprise environments where platform migration, regulated requirements, and product boundaries intersect.

- Partner with customer stakeholders and GitLab account teams to prioritize use cases based on business impact, technical feasibility, repeatability, and long-term platform value.

- Design and build bounded proofs, prototypes, deployment patterns, and reusable accelerators across source code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, and AI-enabled workflows.

- Architect self-managed and enterprise deployments, including runners, access controls, network boundaries, observability, AI Gateway, model connectivity, and governance controls.

- Turn recurring field patterns into reusable assets such as runbooks, templates, design notes, technical guidance, product briefs, and reference architectures that can be used across accounts.

- Contribute code, technical designs, or architecture changes when strategically necessary, in partnership with product and engineering, to address blockers that should be solved upstream.

- Travel as needed for strategic customer engagements, architecture workshops, and team coordination, with expected travel up to 50%.

Requirements:

- Experience in software engineering, platform architecture, forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, or similar customer-facing engineering roles.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to read, reason about, and contribute to production systems, ideally with experience in Ruby on Rails and/or Go.

- Strong systems design and software architecture skills, with experience evaluating APIs, asynchronous workflows, CI/CD systems, security boundaries, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.

- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline design, YAML, runners, and GitLab APIs.

- Experience with infrastructure as code and enterprise deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar approaches.

- Working knowledge of large language models, agentic patterns, tool orchestration, and the practical limits of AI systems in production environments.

- A track record of creating reusable technical assets that outlive a single engagement, along with strong written and verbal communication skills for technical design and architecture guidance.

- Comfort leading conversations with senior stakeholders across security, compliance, engineering, platform, and business teams, especially in ambiguous enterprise environments.

Benefits:

- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental leave

- Home office support

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- platform architecture
- forward deployed engineering
- technical consulting
- Ruby on Rails
- Go
- GitLab CI/CD
- pipeline design
- YAML
- runners
- GitLab APIs
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Helm
- large language models
- agentic patterns
- tool orchestration

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