[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @GitLab

Role Description

The DAP Repository Flows team owns two areas within GitLab's Duo Agent Platform (DAP):

• DAP onboarding: Helping customers quickly set up a project to start using the Duo Agent Platform with minimal friction.
• Repository and background flows: Autonomous and scheduled agents that work on a customer's codebase on their behalf.

This work is central to how GitLab delivers AI-powered automation on repositories. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:

• Set and drive the technical direction for the DAP Repository Flows team, making architecture decisions that shape how onboarding and repository/background flows are built.
• Lead the design and delivery of autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases, building on top of the Duo Agent Platform.
• Design and refine the DAP onboarding experience so customers can get a project configured and productive quickly.
• Partner across teams in the broader DAP organization to align on interfaces, shared patterns, and platform capabilities.
• Mentor senior and intermediate engineers, review designs and code, and elevate the team's overall technical quality.
• Identify and resolve the hardest technical problems the team faces, and prevent them where possible through sound design.
• Contribute to a culture of autonomy, ownership, high context sharing, and async-first collaboration.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in production systems.
• Demonstrated experience integrating LLMs into products (product integration, not ML model training).
• Experience building agentic systems: autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that take actions on a user's behalf.
• A track record of designing and shipping complex, high-scale systems and driving technical direction across teams.
• Strong written communication and the ability to operate effectively in a distributed, async-first environment.
• The judgment and influence expected of a staff-level engineer: setting direction, unblocking others, and multiplying the team's impact.

Benefits

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