[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity @GitLab

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer on GitLab's Nonlinear Productivity team, you'll find and remove friction across the software development lifecycle using reliable AI-powered automation — diagnosing problems like long review cycles, manual release steps, and brittle automation, then building the automation and process changes that resolve them for good.

• Cutting the time it takes to complete a good code review — one that still keeps a human in the loop — by half, using agentic solutions.
• Turning a manual, error-prone release step into an agentic workflow that catches its own mistakes before a human ever has to.

What you'll do:

• Identify sources of friction across GitLab's software development lifecycle and scope agentic solutions to address them, turning vague pain points into concrete, buildable proposals.
• Design and build reliable AI-powered systems that follow step-by-step workflows, use tools and safety checks, and correct errors before taking engineering action.
• Build and maintain evaluation tools that judge agent output on correctness, constraint compliance, and cost.
• Work across GitLab's codebase as each problem requires, going wherever the friction actually is.
• Apply distributed systems judgment to identify generated code that may fail under concurrency, at scale, or across self-managed, dedicated, and multi-tenant deployments.
• Collaborate with the India-based group, sharing roadmaps, findings, and reusable agent tooling.
• Take ownership of a greenfield problem space from day one, helping shape a proven internal fix into a capability GitLab could offer customers externally.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building agentic or large language model-based systems.
• A track record of working autonomously in unfamiliar codebases.
• 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.
• Helpful experience includes shipping autonomous agents that complete real tasks from start to finish.

Requirements

• Experience improving build systems, release processes, review workflows, or other parts of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams, large language model workload costs, or production constraints.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave