Intermediate Backend Engineer - Platform Readiness

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

GitLab features must ship successfully across four distinct deployment platforms—Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com. Today, developers routinely discover platform compatibility issues late in development, triggering costly rework, delays, and emergency escalations. The Platform Readiness team is building an internal developer tooling capability that embeds platform readiness intelligence directly into GitLab's software development lifecycle to solve this problem.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain agentic workflow components on the Duo Agent Platform: contribute to the Core Agentic Workflow (DAP flow) and the Requirements Agent; write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior
• Contribute to the platform requirements knowledge base: add requirements, evolve the schema, and improve validation tooling; work with platform teams to translate their expertise into structured requirements
• 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
• Collaborate with platform teams (Infrastructure, Security, Data) to translate their expertise into platform readiness artifacts and domain skills
• Write clear and concise documentation and evaluations that validate agentic-workflow behavior and improve assessment accuracy

What you'll bring

Required Experience & Skills

• 2+ years of software engineering experience with backend focus
• Proficiency in TypeScript/Node, Python, or Golang
• Comfort reading and contributing to schemas (YAML, JSON Schema) and structured content
• Experience with and operational exposure to Kubernetes and reasoning about failure modes
• Ability to work asynchronously and communicate clearly in written form
• Exposure to and experience with LLM APIs, prompts, or agentic frameworks (does not need to be incredibly extensive)

Highly Valued Experience

• Ruby familiarity
• Experience with GitLab-style development workflows (issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD)
• Open source contributions
• Interest in developer experience or platform engineering

What Makes You Stand Out (Strong Plus)

• You have hands-on experience with any agentic workflow framework (DAP, LangGraph, etc.)
• You've contributed to a structured requirements or specification body and understand the challenges of evolving schemas
• You have observability instincts and care about measuring system behavior

About the team

The Platform Readiness team is part of GitLab Infrastructure and Developer Experience, building an internal developer tooling capability for platform readiness across GitLab's four deployment targets: Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com. We partner with platform teams, feature teams, and product management to ensure every feature is evaluated against platform readiness requirements before it ships.

This is a growth opportunity where you'll learn agentic workflows, requirements schema work, and integration surface development from other engineers and team leadership. You'll contribute to high-impact work that directly improves GitLab's ability to ship features faster and more reliably across all platforms.