# Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, duo agent platform, LangGraph, LLM APIs, CI/CD, Postgres, schema design, validation tooling, Agentic Workflows, Observability, gitlab workflows
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Build backend systems and agentic developer tooling that automate platform-readiness evaluation across GitLab’s deployment platforms. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, backend or platform expertise, and proficiency in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Golang.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Contribute to Platform Readiness agentic workflows on the Duo Agent Platform, including the Core Agentic Workflow and Requirements Agent.
- Evolve the platform requirements knowledge base through schema design, validation tooling, and CI systems.
- Build integrations for issues, merge requests, design documents, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Data teams to translate expertise into structured platform requirements, domain skills, and validation logic.
- Design quality-control feedback loops that surface assessment errors, missed gaps, and content drift.
- Measure and improve assessment accuracy and guidance relevance.
- Mentor engineers on agentic-workflow standards, prompt discipline, evaluation methodology, and human-AI collaboration.
- Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decision records.

## Requirements

- **5+ years** of software engineering experience, including at least **2+ years** in backend, platform, or developer-facing tooling.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Golang; Ruby is a plus.
- Experience shipping developer-facing tooling for engineering users.
- Understanding of GitLab-style workflows, including issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD, and code review.
- Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple platform teams.
- Experience with structured content systems, schemas, or validation tooling.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience with AI or agentic systems such as DAP, ADK, or LangGraph, or the ability to reason rigorously about AI and human decision boundaries.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs and evaluating cost, latency, and failure modes.
- Developer experience or platform engineering background.
- Experience with governance patterns for shared standards and cross-organizational decision-making.
- Open-source contributions in platform, developer experience, or AI infrastructure.
- PostgreSQL or other relational database experience at scale.
- Production experience shipping agentic workflows and handling their operational complexity.
- Experience designing schema-driven content systems with non-engineer authors.
- Experience building developer platform teams at scale.
- Observability and monitoring experience for AI systems, including evaluation metrics, cost tracking, and failure analysis.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

## Compensation and Benefits

- GitLab supports full-time employees with benefits designed to support their health and well-being.

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