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Principal Engineer, Duo Agent Platform
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Remote, Canada; Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is proving through rigorous experiments where AI agents can own engineering tasks, then codifying those patterns into architecture that scales safely to millions of users.
If you get restless with incremental gains and want to prove where AI agents can actually own real engineering work, this is a rare seat. You will run hands-on experiments, design reference architectures with real safety guardrails, and turn what works inside GitLab into capabilities millions of developers rely on. It suits someone who loves shaping direction across teams through sharp writing and evidence rather than a title.
Needs
- experiment design
- prototyping
- systems design
- setting direction
- building ai systems
- opinionated design docs
Rewards
- mentoring senior engineers
- aiming for 10x
- visible business impact
- inventing new patterns
- speaking at conferences
Demands
- living with ambiguity
- working across teams
- influence without authority
- calling hard decisions
Grows
- managing ai risk
- learning new domains fast
- finding reusable patterns
- leading change
Values
- rigour
- ethics first
- remote by default
- long-term thinking
- a learning culture
Drains
- compliance and governance
- tracking productivity metrics
- endless async writing
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