Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform Readiness team, you'll architect systems that automate platform readiness evaluations and mentor other engineers while contributing to the team's technical evolution.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the Platform Readiness team's agentic workflows on the Duo Agent Platform: design, implement, and evolve the Core Agentic Workflow (currently published to the AI Catalog as a DAP flow) and the Requirements Agent, enabling automated evaluation of platform readiness assessments against platform requirements
- Evolve the platform requirements knowledge base: contribute to schema design, validation tooling, and CI systems that power the agentic workflow; ensure the schema captures the full scope of platform readiness concerns across all four platforms and domains
- Build integration surfaces that enable feature teams to engage the Platform Readiness team where they already work: issues, merge requests, design documents, and CI/CD pipelines
- Partner with platform teams (Infrastructure, Security, Data) to translate their expertise into structured platform requirements, domain skills, and validation logic without requiring specific domain knowledge
- Contribute to the quality control feedback loop: design systems that surface assessment errors, missed gaps, and content drift back to the governance loop for continuous improvement; measure and improve assessment accuracy and guidance relevance
- Mentor other engineers on the team in agentic-workflow standards, prompt discipline, evaluation methodology, and the principles of human-AI collaboration in platform readiness
- Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decision records that document the Platform Readiness team's technical evolution and rationale for key design choices
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in backend, platform, or developer-facing tooling
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Golang (Ruby a plus)
- Experience shipping developer-facing tooling where the primary user is another engineer
- Understanding of GitLab-style development workflows (issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD, code review) as first-class artifacts that automation can read and reason about
- Ability to work in cross-functional environments across multiple platform teams
- Experience with structured content systems, schemas, or validation tooling
- Experience with AI/agentic systems (DAP, ADK, LangGraph, or similar) OR demonstrated ability to reason rigorously about the boundary between what AI should decide and what humans must own
- Experience integrating with LLM APIs and reasoning about cost, latency, evaluation, and failure modes
- Background in developer experience or platform engineering
- Experience with governance patterns for shared standards and cross-org decision-making
- Open source contribution history in platform, developer experience, or AI infrastructure
- PostgreSQL or other relational database experience at scale
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- All of our roles are remote
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