Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript), AI Engineering: Duo Client SDK

Far Coder; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 160,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a remote Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript) to help build the Duo Client SDK. You will work across frontend and backend systems, shaping the Node.js core and the public API, and collaborate with engineers to deliver robust, versioned packages.

The role emphasizes clean interfaces, backward compatibility, and secure coding practices. You’ll join a high-performing, fully remote team that values transparency, learning, and impactful contributions to DevSecOps tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript for frontend and backend work.
• Experience building with Node.js and Vue 3.
• Familiarity with API design and RESTful services.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, well-tested TypeScript features that solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance, writing tests with every merge request and contributing to code reviews and design discussions.
• Extract and publish TypeScript packages from the GitLab Language Server, migrating consumers incrementally so no parallel implementation is left to drift.
• Design durable public APIs with clear interfaces, semantic versioning, changelogs, and deprecation paths for external consumers.
• Build isomorphic core packages that isolate platform-specific behavior in adapters at the edges.
• Build and improve SDK client surfaces, including Vue 3 components in Duo Chat on the web, in collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Strengthen credential handling across hosts, including bearer tokens, session cookies, and CSRF protection.
• Optimize bundle size, startup cost, and dependency weight for browser consumers, and support a Tier 2 on-call rotation for urgent engineering issues.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Vue

Rust

REST

Agile

Job description

GitLab is hiring a remote candidate for Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript), AI Engineering: Duo Client SDK. This is a full time position. Work location: Canada. The role typically involves technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, Rust, REST, Agile. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Fullstack Engineer on the Duo Client SDK team at GitLab, you'll build the shared foundation for every GitLab Duo client. Today, the logic that powers Duo in editors lives inside the GitLab Language Server. We're extracting it into a true software development kit (SDK): a set of well-versioned TypeScript packages that editor extensions, our web-based Duo Chat on GitLab.com, and eventually external applications can use. You'll work in TypeScript across frontend and backend systems. You'll design the SDK's Node.js core and public application programming interface (API), and work in the clients that use it. The work rewards care about interfaces, versioning, and backward compatibility as much as features because other engineers will depend on what you build. You'll have senior and staff engineers alongside you to help with design. You'll own the implementation of scoped packages and ship improvements with minimal guidance while collaborating with the team on larger architectural changes. Some examples of our projects: The Duo Client SDK, extracting versioned, publishable packages from the GitLab Language Server The GitLab Language Server, rebuilt on top of the SDK as our polyglot surface Duo Chat on the web, as one of the SDK's first consumers.

What you'll do

• Develop secure, well-tested, and performant TypeScript features that solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance, writing tests with every merge request and contributing to code reviews and design discussions.
• Extract and publish TypeScript packages from the GitLab Language Server, migrating consumers incrementally so no parallel implementation is left to drift.
• Design durable public APIs with clear interfaces, semantic versioning, changelogs, and deprecation paths for external consumers.
• Build isomorphic core packages that isolate platform-specific behavior in adapters at the edges.
• Build and improve SDK client surfaces, including Vue 3 components in Duo Chat on the web, in collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.
• Strengthen credential handling across hosts, including bearer tokens, session cookies, and CSRF protection.
• Optimize bundle size, startup cost, and dependency weight for browser consumers, and support a Tier 2 on-call rotation for urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring

• Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend systems, including experience building and maintaining Node.js services.
• Experience with modern build and packaging tools, including monorepos, multi-module builds, ECMAScript modules (ESM), and dependency management.
• Experience with Vue 3 and the Composition API, or comparable component-based frontend experience and a willingness to learn Vue.
• Experience designing APIs that other people use, with the ability to explain what you’d do differently.
• Understanding of the differences between running code in Node.js and in the browser, and how to write code that works in both.
• A security-minded development approach, including careful credential handling and performance optimization.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing about technical problems, propose iterative solutions, and work effectively in an agile environment.
• Self-motivation, strong organizational skills, and the judgment to ask for help when needed while thriving in a fully remote organization aligned with GitLab's values.

About the team

The Duo Client SDK team sits in GitLab's AI Clients stage and works closely with teams building GitLab Duo experiences. We collaborate across client surfaces to make thoughtful technical decisions as the platform evolves. We work fully remotely and asynchronously across regions, in the open, following GitLab's values of transparency and open communication.

Base salary range

United States Salary Range $115,200—$194,400 USD

Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees Benefits

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

Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

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Skills required for this role include TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, and related tools for day-to-day development.

Seniority level: Mid-level.