Hiring: Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness Company: GitLab Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 12:10:47 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : CI/CD, Design System, Digital Transformation, Embedded Systems, GitLab, Go, LLM, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Product Management, Python, Ruby, TypeScript About the job Experience: •Background in developer experience or platform engineering •Open source contribution history in platform, developer experience, or AI infrastructure •PostgreSQL or other relational database experience at scale •What Makes You Stand Out (Strong Plus) •You've shipped agentic workflows in production and dealt with the operational complexities of AI-driven automation Required Skills: •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 Qualifications: •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) •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 •Demonstrated capacity to work in cross-functional environments across multiple platform teams Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!