Field Strategist, Forward Deployed Engineer
9.0/10
GitLab
$80,500 – $138,000 USD
Remote
mid
about 1 month ago
May be outdated
aidevtechRuby on RailsGoCI/CDYAMLTerraformAnsibleHelm
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Description
What you'll do
- •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
What you'll bring
- •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.
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