Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Nonlinear Productivity team, a new incubation group that builds reliable AI-powered automation to remove friction in the software development lifecycle. This listing is for the US group; the role is remote-global.
What you will do
- Find friction in GitLab's development lifecycle and scope agentic solutions for it
- Build AI-powered systems that follow step-by-step workflows, use tools and safety checks, and correct errors
- Build evaluation tools that judge agent output on correctness, constraint compliance and cost
- Work across GitLab's codebase wherever the problem requires
- Spot generated code that may fail under concurrency or at scale across deployment types
- Share roadmaps and agent tooling with the India-based group
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building agentic or LLM-based systems with multi-step orchestration, tool use and guardrails, running reliably in production
- Record of working independently in unfamiliar codebases and seeing solutions through
- Strong distributed systems knowledge: consistency, idempotency, rate limiting and failure modes
- Proficiency in Go, Rust or Python, and ability to read the others
- Comfort owning a greenfield problem space with no dedicated product manager
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
