Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering – Nonlinear Productivity

🕒 August 6

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, including agent orchestration and human-owned steps • Discover and prioritize friction across GitLab's software development lifecycle and drive fixes from hypothesis to shipped, measured results • Work across GitLab's codebase as required by the problem • Apply distributed systems judgment to generated code across concurrency, scale, and deployment topologies • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and pairing • Collaborate with the India-based group several times a week on roadmap alignment • Represent technical progress to stakeholders in the CTO organization • Own the Technical Leadership hiring round for Staff-level candidates • Own the greenfield technical foundation as the team scales

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building reliable agentic or large language model (LLM)-based systems, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery • Ability to work autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions from discovery through completion • Strong distributed systems and computer science fundamentals, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, with ability to read and modify code in the others • Track record of delivering results from unclear or incomplete requirements • Experience designing evaluation frameworks distinguishing plausible output from correct output • Track record of raising the quality bar for a team's output • History of unblocking and enabling teammates through design reviews, technical writing, or mentoring • Regular engagement with other teams to identify effective collaboration opportunities

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave