Senior AI/Agentic SDLC Architect

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & ESPP

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead autonomous, agentic SDLC initiatives, validating AI-driven workflows and shaping scalable architecture across product, architecture, and engineering teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-functional collaboration, and help codify patterns for production use while ensuring guardrails and governance across multi-tenant environments. This is a senior, remote-ready leadership role in the United States.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership in senior roles.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML systems at production scale.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously refine a company-wide technical vision for autonomous, agentic SDLC.
• Identify and prioritize productivity opportunities across the SDLC, targeting 10x changes.
• Translate ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps with Product, AI/ML, and Architecture teams.
• Lead hands-on experiments and prototypes to validate agentic workflows in prod-adjacent environments.
• Design reference architectures for agentic SDLC, including guardrails and observability.
• Define evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows using offline and online experiments.
• Own high-impact internal use cases from concept to adoption and measurable productivity gains.
• Embed agentic workflows into day-to-day development with visibility and resilience.
• Define core productivity metrics and link interventions to business outcomes.
• Codify reusable patterns and playbooks for cross-team adoption.
• Translate internal patterns into customer-facing product capabilities.
• Ensure designs respect multi-tenant, compliance, and data governance.
• Escalate complex decisions on agentic workflows and AI safety.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar.
• Write design documents, architecture narratives, and decision records.
• Represent GitLab in conferences and industry groups on AI-assisted development.

Skills

10+ years exp

Staff/Principal leadership

AI/ML systems

Hands-on experimentation

Distributed systems

Human-in-the-loop controls

Cross-functional alignment

Mentoring engineers

Remote/asynchronous communication

DevSecOps familiarity

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead autonomous, agentic SDLC initiatives, validating AI-driven workflows and shaping scalable architecture across product, architecture, and engineering teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-functional collaboration, and help codify patterns for production use while ensuring guardrails and governance across multi-tenant environments. This is a senior, remote-ready leadership role in the United States.