Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Identify areas of friction within GitLab's software development lifecycle and devise effective solutions to address them.

• Design and develop robust AI-driven systems that incorporate workflows, tool utilization, safety protocols, and error correction mechanisms.

• Create and sustain evaluation tools that assess agent accuracy, adherence to constraints, and overall costs.

• Engage with GitLab's codebase in all instances where software development friction arises.

• Utilize distributed systems expertise to detect failures related to concurrency, scalability, and various deployment scenarios.

• Collaborate with the team based in India by sharing roadmaps, insights, and reusable agent tools.

• Take ownership of a greenfield problem space, transforming effective internal solutions into customer-facing capabilities within GitLab.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in developing agentic or large language model-based systems featuring multi-step orchestration, tool usage, guardrails, and recovery patterns.

• Proven ability to ensure the reliability of AI-powered systems in production environments.

• Demonstrated history of working independently within unfamiliar codebases and successfully driving solutions to completion.

• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure scenarios, and performance degradation under load.

• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, prioritized in that order by the team.

• Capability to read and modify code in the other specified programming languages.

• Valuable experience in deploying autonomous agents that accomplish real tasks from start to finish.

• Relevant experience in enhancing build systems, release processes, review workflows, or other areas of the software development lifecycle.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams, managing large language model workload costs, or navigating production constraints across on-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant, and software-as-a-service deployments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, financial well-being, and overall wellness.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.