Forward Deployed Engineer, AI and Agentic SDLC at GitLab

Department: Customer Experience

Setup: Remote
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: May 6, 2026

Description

GitLab is hiring a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI and Agentic Software Development Lifecycle. The role will define and build the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, design agent workflows and context systems, develop integrations and product capabilities, evaluate and optimize AI system behavior, work directly with strategic customers, and provide Staff-level technical leadership. The position requires Staff-level software-engineering experience, hands-on AI-systems expertise, strong programming skills, and the ability to learn across GitLab’s large, polyglot codebases. The role is remote, with location-based eligibility requirements that may apply.

Required Skills

Agentic systems
Context systems
RAG
Agent orchestration
Python
TypeScript
Go
Rust
AI safety
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Staff-level software-engineering experience building, shipping, and improving complex production systems
Hands-on experience designing and building substantive AI systems
Staff-level impact through technical direction, reusable systems, mentorship, cross-team influence, or product architecture
Preferred Qualifications: 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 or Ansible
Public technical writing, architecture guidance, open-source contributions, talks, or other evidence of technical leadership
Translation Company Name: GitLab