GitLab
Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity
$153K–$259K
Remote, Canada +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United States
Canada
United States of America
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds agentic systems that reduce friction in GitLab’s software development lifecycle, taking solutions from discovery through evaluation and delivery.
What you'll do
- Lead the design, testing, and delivery of agentic systems and workflow improvements across GitLab’s codebase.
- Apply distributed-systems judgment and mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Coordinate with the India-based group, report progress to stakeholders, and support hiring for Staff-level roles.
What they ask for
- Experience building reliable agentic or LLM-based systems, including orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery.
- Strong distributed systems and computer science fundamentals.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, and ability to read and modify code in the others.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks and delivering results from unclear or incomplete requirements.
Pay
$152,800 — $259,200 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Python
AI focus
Build and evaluate agentic and LLM-based systems, including multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, recovery, and workflows that keep humans involved where appropriate.
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