Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab
Python, AI Engineer: Agent Foundations
Offers equity and ESPP
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Offers equity and ESPP
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
- A deep interest in the way AI will change the process of software development
- Multiple years of experience building Python Web Services in a multi-service environment ( e.g. FastAPI, Starlette)
- Proven ability to architect and lead complex technical projects from concept to production across distributed systems
- Strong experience with AI/ML technologies, including integration with large language models and understanding of prompt engineering
- Deep expertise in performance optimization, particularly for systems handling high-volume API requests
- Experience designing and building distributed systems with a focus on reliability, observability, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions and influence engineering strategy across multiple teams
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical capabilities of a team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating in a remote, globally distributed environment
- Ability to work effectively across different technology stacks and quickly learn new languages and frameworks as needed
- Experience with the gRPC framework is a plus
- Experience with languages that our other services use such as Go, Typescript, Ruby or IDE Extension development is a plus
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement
What the job involves
- The Agent Foundations group is focused on developing GitLab the foundations of Agents and Flows, an AI system to automate tasks and help increase productivity in your development workflow
- As our new Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll build out our core service written that not only hosts and coordinates our AI agents but also enables both teams inside and outside of GitLab to build their own agents
- You’ll be leading efforts to make sure the service follows up-to-date best practices for Python web development and orchestrating the communication between different services via gRPC as well as contributing to the core AI functionality
- As a Python engineer through and through you’ll spread your knowledge across a company where the main language is Ruby
- Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews
- Build a highly scalable web platform based on Python and gRPC that can be deployed in different environments
- Design and develop interactions with the latest LLMs
- Contribute to a testing infrastructure that allows us to verify agentic AI behaviours
- Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies around AI to drive improvements in our software
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers across the Code Creation team and collaborate with other teams
- Influence product and engineering decisions by proposing thorough, iterative solutions to complex technical and architectural challenges
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, marketing, and more
- Represent the team in technical discussions with customers and stakeholders about AI-powered development capabilities
- Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and/or occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting 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.
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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
(CEO)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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