Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity
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GitLabDevSecOps Platform
Remote, Canada; Remote, United States, Collaborate with the India-based group a few times a weekFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PythonGoRustLLMDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience building reliable agentic or LLM-based systems, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery.
- Ability to work autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions from discovery through completion.
- Strong distributed systems and computer science fundamentals, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, with the ability to read and modify code in the others.
- Track record of delivering results from unclear or incomplete requirements, decomposing complex problems into small, shippable steps.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for systems to verify correctness.
- History of unblocking and enabling teammates through design reviews, technical writing, or mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, from how agents are orchestrated to where a step should stay human-owned.
- Discover and prioritize sources of friction across GitLab's SDLC and drive the solution from hypothesis to shipped, measured result.
- Operate as a generalist by working across any part of GitLab's codebase.
- Apply distributed systems judgment to catch cases where generated code looks correct but breaks under concurrency, at scale, or across deployment topologies.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on agent engineering practices and distributed systems judgment through design reviews and pairing.
- Collaborate with the India-based group a few times a week to align on the roadmap.
- Represent the team's technical progress to stakeholders in the CTO's organization.
- Serve as a bar raiser for the team's hiring, owning the Technical Leadership round for other Staff-level candidates.
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