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Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

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4 days ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify software development lifecycle friction and turn vague pain points into concrete agentic solution proposals.
  • Design and build reliable AI-powered systems with step-by-step workflows, tool use, safety checks, and error correction.
  • Build and maintain evaluation tools measuring agent correctness, constraint compliance, and cost.
  • Work across GitLab’s codebase to solve problems wherever friction occurs.
  • Apply distributed-systems judgment to identify failures under concurrency, scale, and self-managed, dedicated, and multi-tenant deployments.
  • Collaborate with the India-based group on roadmaps, findings, and reusable agent tooling.
  • Own a greenfield problem space and help evolve proven internal solutions into externally offered capabilities.

Requirements

  • Hands-on production experience building agentic or large-language-model-based systems with multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery patterns.
  • Ability to work autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions through completion.
  • Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load.
  • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, with the ability to read and modify code in the other listed languages.
  • Helpful experience includes shipping autonomous agents, improving build or release systems and review workflows, working with globally distributed teams, managing large-language-model workload costs, and supporting on-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant, and software-as-a-service deployments.

Benefits

  • Remote-global work arrangement with country-specific eligibility requirements.
  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.

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