Senior Backend Engineer, Python – Agent Developer: Flow Components

🕒 August 19

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 13%

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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

• Develop, ship, and maintain secure, well-tested, and performant Flow Registry features across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith backend • Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, frontend, backend, and artificial intelligence specialists to refine requirements and deliver iterative product improvements • Design, implement, and review GraphQL and REST application programming interfaces, related backend logic, and clear contracts with frontend clients • Improve automated testing with RSpec and other frameworks to strengthen quality, reliability, and developer feedback loops • Share standards, patterns, and lessons with other engineers to support responsible artificial intelligence integration and evidence-driven engineering • Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency • Monitor the competitive landscape and help keep GitLab's Flow Registry primitives and capabilities competitive within the agentic platform market

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining production Python applications with LangChain and LangGraph, including background jobs, application programming interfaces, and data models • Experience designing and shipping artificial intelligence-powered backend features and integrations, with sound judgment about large language model limitations and responsible production use • Proficiency in designing or extending REST and GraphQL application programming interfaces with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling • Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase and addressing performance bottlenecks at the application and, when relevant, infrastructure layers • Familiarity with JavaScript and Vue frontend development, with an understanding of user experience principles • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing technical proposals and documentation and collaborating in a remote, asynchronous, cross-functional environment • Openness to learning and applying transferable skills from related technologies or domains

🏖️ 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