Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness
GitLab · Platforms Engineering
- Location
- Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- Unspecified
- Posted
- 3 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About the company
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million…
About the company
GitLab features must ship successfully across four distinct deployment platforms—Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com. Today, developers routinely discover platform compatibility issues late in development, triggering costly…
What you'll do
Contribute to the Platform Readiness team's agentic workflows on the Duo Agent Platform: design, implement, and evolve the Core Agentic Workflow (currently published to the AI Catalog as a DAP flow) and the Requirements Agent, enabling automated evaluation of…
Required Experience & Skills
5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in backend, platform, or developer-facing tooling Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Golang (Ruby a plus) Experience shipping developer-facing tooling where the primary user is…
Highly Valued Experience
Experience with AI/agentic systems (DAP, ADK, LangGraph, or similar) OR demonstrated ability to reason rigorously about the boundary between what AI should decide and what humans must own Experience integrating with LLM APIs and reasoning about cost, latency,…
What Makes You Stand Out (Strong Plus)
You've shipped agentic workflows in production and dealt with the operational complexities of AI-driven automation You have experience designing schema-driven content systems with non-engineer authors and evolving them as requirements change You've built…
About the team
The Platform Readiness team is part of GitLab Developer Experience, building internal developer tooling capability for platform readiness across GitLab's four deployment targets: Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com. We partner…
Current challenges we're tackling
Moving from manual coordination to embedded automation: Transitioning from manual, ad-hoc platform readiness assessments to automated, agentic evaluation while maintaining human oversight and trust Building a structured, machine-readable requirements body:…
Team structure
You'll be joining a newly established Platform Readiness team that is building the capability to embed platform readiness intelligence into the development lifecycle. As a Senior engineer, you'll work closely with team leadership to define technical direction…
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
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 Please note that we welcome interest from candidates…
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