Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering

GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer building reliable AI automation for GitLab’s DevSecOps platform. Improving software-development workflows through agentic systems, evaluations, and distributed-systems engineering.

Posted 8/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building reliable AI-powered systems and agentic solutions, with a strong focus on distributed systems and software development lifecycle improvements. Proficient in programming languages such as Go, Rust, and Python, with a proven ability to work autonomously in complex codebases.

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AI-Powered Systems DevelopmentDistributed Systems KnowledgeProficiency in GoProficiency in RustProficiency in Python

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Hard Skills

Agentic SystemsLarge Language ModelsMulti-Step OrchestrationTool UseGuardrailsRecovery PatternsCode ModificationAutonomous AgentsBuild Systems ImprovementRelease Processes

Soft Skills

CollaborationAutonomous Problem Solving

Industry Keywords

Software Development LifecycleConcurrencyScaleDeployment ModelsCost ComplianceError CorrectionFriction IdentificationGlobal Team CollaborationProduction ConstraintsSingle-Tenant Deployments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoPythonRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify sources of friction across GitLab's software development lifecycle and scope agentic solutions to address them
Design and build reliable AI-powered systems with workflows, tool use, safety checks, and error correction
Build and maintain evaluation tools measuring agent correctness, constraint compliance, and cost
Work across GitLab's codebase wherever software-development friction occurs
Apply distributed-systems judgment to identify failures under concurrency, scale, and different deployment models
Collaborate with the India-based group by sharing roadmaps, findings, and reusable agent tooling
Own a greenfield problem space and help turn proven internal fixes into customer-facing GitLab capabilities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Hands-on experience building agentic or large language model-based systems with multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery patterns
Experience making AI-powered systems reliable in production
Track record of working autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and driving solutions through completion
Strong distributed systems knowledge, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load
Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, in that order of team priority
Ability to read and modify code in the other listed languages
Helpful experience shipping autonomous agents that complete real tasks end to end
Helpful experience improving build systems, release processes, review workflows, or other software development lifecycle areas
Helpful experience with globally distributed teams, large language model workload costs, or production constraints across on-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant, and software-as-a-service deployments

Benefits

Comp & perks

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