Backend Engineer, GitLab
AI Engineering, Duo Chat
$115.2-194.4k
Plus Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Be an early applicant
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115.2-194.4k
Plus Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience with Python, including building and testing production services
- Working proficiency with Ruby on Rails, or a willingness to learn it, since a meaningful part of Chat lives in the GitLab monolith
- Exposure to, or strong interest in, building on top of large language models, including prompting, tool or function calling, evaluation, and the failure modes of non-deterministic systems
- Experience designing and building APIs, including diagnosing and optimizing performance issues, and comfort working with well-documented third-party services
- A security-minded development approach that applies secure coding guidelines early in the development process
- Clear and concise written communication about technical problems and iterative solutions, which is essential in a remote, largely asynchronous environment
- Manage work independently, organize priorities, and ask for help when an issue is taking longer than expected
- Demonstrate GitLab's values by collaborating effectively in a fully remote, intensely iterative environment
- Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, or a comparable agent orchestration framework
- Experience with GraphQL and RSpec
- Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
- Experience working on a remote, globally distributed team
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement
- Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer on the Chat Engine team, you'll build the engine behind GitLab Duo Chat, the conversational AI experience for GitLab
- You'll work primarily in Python to build and maintain our agentic runtime: the Flow Registry, LangGraph flows, and the Duo Workflow Service. You'll also work in the GitLab Rails monolith, where Chat connects with the product
- You'll own scoped parts of the system, ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance, and collaborate with the team on larger projects. You'll work alongside senior and staff engineers who will partner with you on design and support your growth
- Develop secure, well-tested, and performant features and improvements for GitLab Duo Chat
- Implement and extend agentic flows in Python using LangGraph, registered through the Flow Registry and served by the Duo Workflow Service
- Integrate Chat capabilities with the GitLab Rails monolith, including its GraphQL application programming interface (API)
- Write maintainable code that meets our internal standards for a high-scale environment, including tests with every merge request
- Review code within our Code Review Guidelines and respond promptly to contributions from people who don't work for GitLab
- Identify technical debt and propose and implement solutions that improve the team's efficiency
- Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, and Frontend team members to improve product quality, security, and performance
- Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and occasional night on-call rotations to help troubleshoot product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $435m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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