GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

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2 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify software development lifecycle friction and scope concrete agentic solutions.
  • Design and build reliable AI-powered systems with workflow orchestration, tools, safety checks, and error recovery.
  • Build and maintain evaluation tools that measure agent correctness, constraint compliance, and cost.
  • Work across GitLab’s codebase wherever workflow friction exists.
  • Apply distributed systems judgment to identify concurrency, scale, and deployment-related failure risks.
  • Collaborate with the India-based group on roadmaps, findings, and reusable agent tooling.
  • Own a greenfield problem space and help develop proven internal solutions into customer-facing capabilities.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building reliable agentic or large language model-based systems in production, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery patterns.
  • Autonomous experience navigating unfamiliar codebases and driving 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, in that order of team priority, with the ability to read and modify code in the other languages.
  • Helpful experience includes shipping autonomous agents, improving build systems or software development lifecycle workflows, working with globally distributed teams, managing large language model workload costs, and supporting on-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant, or software-as-a-service deployments.

Benefits

  • 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
  • Remote-global work arrangement
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About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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