# Senior Backend Engineer , AI Engineering: DAP Repository Flows

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Ruby on Rails, LLMs, Llm Product Integration, Agentic Systems, Autonomous Agents, Gitlab Duo Agent Platform, Gitlab Issues, Slack
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Builds Ruby and Rails backend features for GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform, including onboarding, autonomous agents, and repository workflows. The role requires production Ruby experience, LLM product integration, agentic-systems experience, and independent feature ownership in an async distributed environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the design and delivery of features end to end across DAP onboarding and repository/background flows.
- Build autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases using the Duo Agent Platform.
- Improve the DAP onboarding experience so customers can configure a project and become productive quickly.
- Collaborate with engineers across the DAP organization on shared interfaces and patterns.
- Review designs and code, contributing to the team's technical quality.
- Contribute to a culture of autonomy, ownership, high-context sharing, and async-first collaboration.

## Requirements
- Strong, hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in production systems.
- Experience integrating large language models (LLMs) into products, focused on product integration rather than model training.
- Experience building agentic systems, including autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that take actions on a user's behalf.
- Track record of designing and shipping features independently in a collaborative team.
- Strong written communication and ability to operate effectively in a distributed, async-first environment.

## Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team member resource groups.
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and development fund.
- Parental leave.

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