Intermediate Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

About the role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. 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 compatibility issues across four distinct deployment platforms: Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab.com.

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the newly established Platform Readiness functional team in Developer Experience, you'll contribute to systems that enable features to ship successfully across all platforms by building and maintaining agentic workflow components and evolving the platform requirements knowledge base. This is a growth opportunity where you will learn the team's agentic workflows, requirements schema, and integration surfaces from other engineers and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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 extensive)

Qualifications

• Highly Valued: Ruby familiarity
• Highly Valued: Experience with GitLab-style development workflows (issues, epics, merge requests, CI/CD)
• Highly Valued: Open source contributions
• Highly Valued: Interest in developer experience or platform engineering
• Standout Plus: Hands-on experience with any agentic workflow framework (DAP, LangGraph, etc.)
• Standout Plus: Contributed to a structured requirements or specification body and understand the challenges of evolving schemas
• Standout Plus: 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. We partner with platform teams, feature teams, and product management to ensure every feature is evaluated against platform readiness requirements before it ships.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave