Forward Deployed Engineer, AI and Agentic SDLC

• Experience working directly with customers, design partners, or external engineering teams.
• Experience building AI systems for software development, coding agents, IDEs, code understanding, code review, testing, CI/CD, security, or incident response.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, cache-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, agent evaluation, tracing, or related systems.
• Experience evaluating how model and inference behavior affects application or agent performance.
• Experience with self-hosted models, restricted environments, enterprise governance, or customer-controlled inference.
• Familiarity with Git, GitLab, CI/CD, developer platforms, or large open-source products.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or other parts of GitLab’s existing product stack.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Public technical writing, architecture guidance, open-source contributions, talks, or other evidence of technical leadership.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• 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

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