# Staff Backend Engineer , AI Engineering: DAP Repository Flows

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Ruby on Rails, LLMs, Agentic Systems, Autonomous Agents, System Architecture, Distributed Systems, High-Scale Systems, Gitlab Duo Agent Platform, Slack
**Posted:** 2026-08-08

> Sets technical direction and builds high-scale Ruby/Rails backend systems for GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform, including autonomous and scheduled repository agents and onboarding flows. Requires staff-level architecture leadership, cross-team influence, and experience integrating LLMs into production products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set and drive the technical direction for the DAP Repository Flows team, making architecture decisions for onboarding and repository/background flows.
- Lead the design and delivery of autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases using the Duo Agent Platform.
- Design and refine the DAP onboarding experience so customers can configure a project and become productive quickly.
- Partner across the DAP organization on interfaces, shared patterns, and platform capabilities.
- Mentor senior and intermediate engineers, review designs and code, and raise technical quality.
- Identify and resolve complex technical problems through sound design.
- Contribute to autonomy, ownership, high-context sharing, and async-first collaboration.

## Requirements
- Deep, hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in production systems.
- Experience integrating large language models into products; model training is not required.
- Experience building autonomous or semi-autonomous agentic systems that take actions on a user's behalf.
- Experience designing and shipping complex, high-scale systems and driving technical direction across teams.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed, async-first environment.
- Staff-level judgment and influence, including setting direction, unblocking others, and multiplying team impact.

## Benefits
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- 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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