GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps with over 50 million users and Fortune 100 trust, emphasizing AI as a core productivity multiplier and a culture of knowledge sharing and inclusion. The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic SDLC role (EMEA only) is a field-focused product engineer who collaborates with strategic customers and cross-functional GitLab teams to diagnose adoption blockers and translate field learnings into durable product improvements and repeatable patterns. Responsibilities include contributing production-quality code, diagnosing complex problems across product behavior, architecture, CI/CD, security and governance, and driving governed AI adoption of the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, plus creating technical narratives and reusable guidance. Ideal candidates have staff-level experience with complex production software, strong Ruby on Rails or Go skills, experience with AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, and the ability to coordinate across Product, Engineering, SRE, Support, SA, CSA, CSM, and Professional Services, with direct GitLab platform experience strongly preferred. The posting also outlines what the role is not, success measures, team context, benefits, global remote eligibility, and GitLab’s equal opportunity and privacy policies, including location-based considerations and accommodations.