Remote Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby) - AI-Driven Agents

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Flexible PTO

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock?

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the DAP Repository Flows team within the Duo Agent Platform. You will drive architecture and deliver autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases, building on the Duo Agent Platform.

Based in the United States, this role offers a base salary range of $152,800 to $259,200 with benefits, flexible PTO, equity and growth opportunities.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Ruby & Rails

LLMs integration

Agentic systems

High-scale systems design

Written communication

Staff-level leadership

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for the DAP Repository Flows team within the Duo Agent Platform. You will drive architecture and deliver autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases, building on the Duo Agent Platform.

Based in the United States, this role offers a base salary range of $152,800 to $259,200 with benefits, flexible PTO, equity and growth opportunities.