Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering – Nonlinear Productivity

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

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision for the team's agentic systems, encompassing agent orchestration and human-operated processes.

• Identify and prioritize challenges throughout GitLab's software development lifecycle, driving solutions from hypothesis to completed, measurable outcomes.

• Navigate GitLab's codebase as necessary based on the challenges at hand.

• Utilize distributed systems expertise to evaluate generated code concerning concurrency, scalability, and deployment architectures.

• Provide mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and collaborative programming sessions.

• Engage with the India-based team multiple times a week to ensure alignment on the roadmap.

• Communicate technical advancements to stakeholders within the CTO organization.

• Lead the Technical Leadership hiring process for Staff-level candidates.

• Oversee the foundational technical groundwork as the team expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developing reliable agentic systems or large language model (LLM)-based solutions, including multi-step orchestration, tool utilization, guardrails, and recovery processes.

• Capacity to operate independently within unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions from initial discovery to final implementation.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and computer science principles, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and performance degradation under load.

• Proficient in Go, Rust, or Python, with the ability to read and modify code in other languages.

• History of achieving results despite unclear or incomplete requirements.

• Experience in designing evaluation frameworks that differentiate between plausible and correct outputs.

• Proven ability to elevate the quality of a team's deliverables.

• Background in unblocking and empowering team members through design reviews, technical documentation, or mentorship.

• Regular collaboration with other teams to pinpoint effective opportunities for partnership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off policy.

• Access to Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund to support your professional journey.

• Parental Leave to support you during important life events.