Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab
Agent Developer: Flow Components - Python
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ 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
- Experience building and maintaining production Python applications with LangChain and LangGraph, including background jobs, application programming interfaces, and data models
- Experience designing and shipping artificial intelligence-powered backend features and integrations, with sound judgment about large language model limitations and responsible production use
- Proficiency in designing or extending REST and GraphQL application programming interfaces with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling
- Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase and addressing performance bottlenecks at the application and, when relevant, infrastructure layers
- Familiarity with JavaScript and Vue frontend development, with an understanding of user experience principles
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing technical proposals and documentation and collaborating in a remote, asynchronous, cross-functional environment
- Openness to learning and applying transferable skills from related technologies or domains
- 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 Senior Backend Engineer on the Flow Components functional team, you'll help build GitLab's Flow Registry, which provides reusable primitives for agentic flows built on the GitLab Duo Agent Platform
- Your primary focus will be backend engineering in Python, using LangChain and LangGraph to develop secure, reliable, and scalable capabilities across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith
- You'll also work across the stack when needed, bringing familiarity with JavaScript and frontend development to support the official GitLab Duo Agent Platform client, Duo CLI, and advocate for a strong user experience
- Develop, ship, and maintain secure, well-tested, and performant Flow Registry features across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith backend
- Collaborate with Product Management, User Experience, frontend, backend, and artificial intelligence specialists to refine requirements and deliver iterative product improvements
- Design, implement, and review GraphQL and REST application programming interfaces, related backend logic, and clear contracts with frontend clients
- Improve automated testing with RSpec and other frameworks to strengthen quality, reliability, and developer feedback loops
- Share standards, patterns, and lessons with other engineers to support responsible artificial intelligence integration and evidence-driven engineering
- Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency
- Monitor the competitive landscape and help keep GitLab's Flow Registry primitives and capabilities competitive within the agentic platform market
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: $434.9m
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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