# Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Python, Llm Systems, Agent Orchestration, Distributed Systems, Concurrency, Idempotency, Rate Limiting, Evaluation Frameworks, Multi-Tenant Systems, Technical Writing
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Staff-level backend engineer who will define architecture and technical direction for greenfield agentic systems, validate their correctness at scale, and drive productivity improvements across the software development lifecycle. Requires strong distributed-systems fundamentals, proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, and experience with reliable LLM-based systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, including agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop boundaries, and validation against real code.
- Discover and prioritize friction across the software development lifecycle, driving solutions from hypothesis through shipped, measured results.
- Work across GitLab's codebase as needed within a generalist team.
- Apply distributed-systems judgment to concurrency, scale, deployment topologies, and self-managed, dedicated, and multi-tenant environments.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing on agent engineering and distributed-systems practices.
- Collaborate with the India-based group several times a week on roadmap alignment.
- Represent technical progress to stakeholders in the Chief Technology Officer's organization.
- Support hiring as a bar raiser and own the Technical Leadership round for Staff-level candidates.
- Establish the team's greenfield technical foundation and grow its scope and impact.

## Requirements
- Experience building reliable agentic or large language model (LLM)-based systems, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery.
- Ability to work autonomously in unfamiliar codebases and drive solutions from discovery through completion.
- Strong distributed-systems and computer-science fundamentals, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, with the ability to read and modify code in the others.
- Track record of delivering results from unclear or incomplete requirements and decomposing complex problems into concrete, shippable steps.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks that distinguish plausible output from correct output.
- History of enabling teammates through design reviews, technical writing, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team member resource groups.
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and development fund.
- Parental leave.
- Remote work arrangement with country-specific eligibility requirements.

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