Staff Backend Engineer — Agentic Systems (Remote)

GitLab Inc.; Oregon; Híbrido; USD 153.000 - 259.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Benefits package for health and well‑f

Flexible PTO

Employee Resource Groups

Equity compensation & ESPP

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Resumo da vaga

GitLab is hiring a Staff Engineer for its Nonlinear Productivity team in the US. You will define the technical direction for agentic systems, orchestrate multi-step workflows, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with the India-based group on roadmap alignment.

The role emphasizes ownership from day one, with a focus on building greenfield foundations and delivering high-integrity distributed systems at scale.

Qualificações

• Experience building reliable agentic or large language model (LLM)-based systems, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery.
• Ability to work autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions from discovery through completion.
• Strong distributed systems and computer science fundamentals, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load.
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, with the ability to read and modify code in the others.
• A track record of delivering results from unclear or incomplete requirements - able to take a complex, loosely specified problem and decompose it into a concrete proposal of small, shippable steps.
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for systems where looks plausible vs actually correct differ, and raising the quality bar for a team's output.

Responsabilidades

• Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, from how agents are orchestrated to where a step should stay human-owned, and defend those calls once they're tested against real code.
• Discover and prioritize sources of friction across GitLab's SDLC, driving the fix - agentic, process-based, or both - from a rough hypothesis through to a shipped, measured result.
• Work across any part of GitLab's codebase as the problem requires, since this team operates like a small, generalist group rather than one scoped to a single service.
• Apply distributed systems judgment to catch cases where generated code looks correct but breaks under concurrency, at scale, or across deployment topologies, and coach others to do the same.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on agent engineering practices and distributed systems judgment, through design reviews and pairing that raise the team's collective bar.
• Collaborate with the India-based group a few times a week to align on the roadmap, and represent the team's technical progress to stakeholders in the CTO's organization.
• Serve as a bar raiser for the team's hiring, owning the Technical Leadership round for other Staff-level candidates as the team scales.
• Own a greenfield technical foundation from day one, with your scope and impact free to grow as the team scales.

Conhecimentos

Agentic systems experience

Autonomous work in unfamiliar code

Distributed systems fundamentals

Problem decomposition from vague specs

Mentoring and collaboration

Ferramentas

Go

Rust

Python

Descrição da vaga

GitLab is hiring a Staff Engineer for its Nonlinear Productivity team in the US. You will define the technical direction for agentic systems, orchestrate multi-step workflows, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with the India-based group on roadmap alignment.

The role emphasizes ownership from day one, with a focus on building greenfield foundations and delivering high-integrity distributed systems at scale.