Staff Backend (Python) Engineer, AI Engineering: Duo Chat
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GitLabDevSecOps
Remote, Americas; Remote, Canada; Remote, Ireland; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, United KingdomFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonSQLRuby on RailsREST APIDebuggingLLMGenerative AI
Requirements
- Production experience building and operating backend services in Python, including background jobs, APIs, and data models
- Ability to define and evolve technical architecture by weighing trade-offs, selecting patterns and tools, and setting a clear technical direction for others to follow
- Experience setting and driving a technical roadmap in partnership with product and engineering stakeholders
- Proficiency designing and maintaining REST and/or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models into applications, including prompt design and building features powered by generative AI
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling
- Experience mentoring engineers through code review, architectural guidance, and shared standards, and communicating complex technical decisions in a clear, async-first way
- Comfort contributing in a mature codebase across Python and Ruby on Rails, with openness to learning and applying transferable skills from related technologies or domains
Responsibilities
- Define the technical architecture and technical roadmap for the Duo Chat group, aligning backend execution with product direction and engineering priorities
- Solve the highest-scope and most ambiguous backend problems, delivering secure, well-tested, performant solutions with minimal guidance
- Integrate and extend generative AI capabilities in GitLab Duo Chat, including large language models (LLMs) and providers such as Google Vertex AI
- Develop, ship, and maintain backend features across Python and Ruby on Rails services that power Duo Chat experiences across the GitLab platform
- Design, implement, and review GraphQL application programming interface (API) contracts and supporting backend logic to ensure reliability, scalability, and clear frontend integrations
- Improve observability, debugging workflows, and incident readiness by strengthening logging, tracing, and production troubleshooting practices
- Drive code quality and long-term maintainability by setting internal standards, leading code reviews, and identifying and reducing technical debt
- Mentor engineers across the team and participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, contributing to root cause analysis and follow-up improvements to resiliency and testing (including RSpec)
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