Intermediate Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

Summary

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, security, compliance, and digital transformation. The Intermediate Backend Engineer will build and maintain agentic workflow components, evolve the platform requirements knowledge base, and develop integrations that help features ship successfully across GitLab's deployment platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain agentic workflow components on the Duo Agent Platform: contribute to the Core Agentic Workflow (DAP flow) and the Requirements Agent; write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior
• Contribute to the platform requirements knowledge base: add requirements, evolve the schema, and improve validation tooling; work with platform teams to translate their expertise into structured requirements
• Build integration surfaces that enable feature teams to engage the Platform Readiness team where they already work: issues, merge requests, design documents, and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with platform teams (Infrastructure, Security, Data) to translate their expertise into platform readiness artifacts and domain skills
• Write clear and concise documentation and evaluations that validate agentic-workflow behavior and improve assessment accuracy

Skills

• **Software engineering experience** with backend focus
• **Proficiency in TypeScript/Node,  Python, or Golang**
• **Comfort reading and contributing to schemas** (YAML, JSON Schema) and structured content
• **Experience with and operational exposure to Kubernetes** and reasoning about failure modes
• **Ability to work asynchronously** and communicate clearly in written form
• **Exposure to and experience with LLM APIs, prompts, or agentic frameworks** (does not need to be incredibly extensive)
• **Ruby familiarity**
• **Experience with GitLab-style development workflows** (issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD)
• **Open source contributions**
• **Interest in developer experience or platform engineering**
• You have **hands-on experience with any agentic workflow framework** (DAP, LangGraph, etc.)
• You've **contributed to a structured requirements or specification body** and understand the challenges of evolving schemas
• You have **observability instincts** and care about measuring system behavior

Qualifications

Must Haves

• **Software engineering experience** with backend focus
• **Proficiency in TypeScript/Node,  Python, or Golang**
• **Comfort reading and contributing to schemas** (YAML, JSON Schema) and structured content
• **Experience with and operational exposure to Kubernetes** and reasoning about failure modes
• **Ability to work asynchronously** and communicate clearly in written form
• **Exposure to and experience with LLM APIs, prompts, or agentic frameworks** (does not need to be incredibly extensive)

Nice to Haves

• **Ruby familiarity**
• **Experience with GitLab-style development workflows** (issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD)
• **Open source contributions**
• **Interest in developer experience or platform engineering**
• You have **hands-on experience with any agentic workflow framework** (DAP, LangGraph, etc.)
• You've **contributed to a structured requirements or specification body** and understand the challenges of evolving schemas
• You have **observability instincts** and care about measuring system behavior

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• All of our roles are remote