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About the Role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
As a Backend Engineer on the Plan: Spec-Driven Development team, you'll help build GitLab's intent-to-code loop: agentic workflows that turn a stated intent into a refined work item, an implementation plan, and verified, mergeable code. You'll own early-stage backend work across the flows, application programming interfaces, data models, and evaluation systems behind this experience, using Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, large language model application programming interfaces, and an artificial intelligence gateway.
You'll join a small, distributed team working on one of GitLab's highest-visibility product bets, collaborating with design partners toward a public beta. In your first year, you'll lead major features from an unclear problem through release, help shape scope with product and users, mentor other engineers, and influence technical decisions across agent workflows and evaluation methods.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Lead backend features from early product discussions through technical design, implementation, rollout, and post-launch learning.
- check_circle Build the flows, application programming interfaces, and data models behind agent-generated work items, implementation plans, durable specifications, and mergeable code.
- check_circle Develop evaluation and benchmarking systems that measure workflow quality, token cost, and success rate.
- check_circle Use Ruby on Rails and Python to build reliable production systems, with PostgreSQL, GraphQL, representational state transfer, GitLab Duo Agent Platform, large language model application programming interfaces, and an artificial intelligence gateway.
- check_circle Collaborate directly with product, design, engineers, design partners, and users to shape scope and make practical trade-offs.
- check_circle Coordinate multi-person projects across the team and communicate decisions clearly in GitLab's asynchronous, all-remote environment.
- check_circle Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical direction across the Plan group and related artificial intelligence initiatives.
- check_circle Work in short iterations, share progress through demos, and use results and user feedback to guide what comes next.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check Strong Ruby on Rails experience in a large production codebase and production experience with Python.
- check Experience driving substantial projects with several engineers over multiple months, with clear user or business outcomes.
- check A product mindset and experience owning features end to end, including shaping scope, making trade-offs, engaging with users, and learning from adoption after launch.
- check A full stack background with a current focus on backend engineering, plus the ability to read modern frontend code and design effective APIs.
- check Strong application programming interface design and structured query language fundamentals.
- check Experience exploring artificial intelligence-assisted development.
- check The ability to work independently, collaborate across functions and regions, and support others through technical leadership and mentoring.
About GitLab Greenhouse Board
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GitLab Greenhouse Board operates as a remote-first technology and software hiring entity based in the United States, facilitating recruitment processes aligned with GitLab's broader organizational standards.