Principal Engineer, Remote AI Agent Platform Orchestration

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Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 250,000 - 325,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off
Equity Compensation & ESPP
Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the Duo Agent Platform, guiding architecture across multiple teams and delivering a scalable, secure orchestration layer for AI agents and flows. You will collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security to set clear technical direction and roadmaps with a six-month horizon.

The role emphasizes hands-on implementation, mentoring Staff/Senior engineers, and influencing multi-tenant deployments on GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience including 3+ years at Staff/Principal level.
  • Hands-on production experience with large language models and agent-oriented systems.
  • Experience shipping to real users in distributed environments.
  • Ability to drive alignment across multiple teams and mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Define technical direction for Duo Agent Platform across several teams.
  • Build orchestration layer for agents, tool invocation, and context management.
  • Contribute to incident management and on-call rotation for availability goals.
  • Write design documents, architecture narratives, and decision records.
  • Drive governance, safety, and compliance with security teams.

Skills

Software engineering
Distributed systems
AI/ML systems
Mentoring engineers
Remote work
Leadership
Communication

Tools

Ruby
Go
Python
TypeScript

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the Duo Agent Platform, guiding architecture across multiple teams and delivering a scalable, secure orchestration layer for AI agents and flows. You will collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security to set clear technical direction and roadmaps with a six-month horizon.

The role emphasizes hands-on implementation, mentoring Staff/Senior engineers, and influencing multi-tenant deployments on GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed

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