Intermediate Backend Engineer, AI Powered: Duo Workflow

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Requirements:

• A deep interest in the way AI will change the process of software development.
• Multiple years of experience building Python Web Services in a multi-service environment (e.g. FastAPI, Starlette).
• Familiar with deploying, monitoring and debugging Python applications in different setups.
• Experience with Relational Database Management Systems and SQL.
• Experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain or directly interacting with LLM APIs.
• Experience with the gRPC framework is a plus.
• Experience with languages that our other services use such as Go, Typescript, Ruby or IDE Extension development is a plus.
• A commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB at GitLab).
• A passion for creating products and features used by developers.
• An ability to self-manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus).
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• A commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development.

Responsibilities:

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews.
• Build a highly scalable web platform based on Python and gRPC that can be deployed in different environments.
• Design and develop interactions with the latest LLMs.
• Contribute to a testing infrastructure that allows us to verify agentic AI behaviours.
• Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies around AI to drive improvements in our software.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Collaborate with more Senior Engineers on the architectural plans and technical designs ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability and measurability of our Duo Workflow platform.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and/or occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.