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Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is finding friction across the software development lifecycle and building trustworthy AI-powered automation that removes it for good, in a greenfield space you help define.
This is for the engineer who would rather go hunt down the next problem than wait for a ticket. You will take a blank greenfield problem space and build AI-powered automation reliable enough to trust with real engineering decisions, working wherever the friction actually lives across GitLab's codebase. If you love agentic systems that recover from their own mistakes, distributed systems judgment, and the freedom of a team that runs like a startup, this one will feel like home.
Needs
- building reliable systems
- tracing root causes
- designing agent workflows
- distributed systems design
- automating manual toil
- learning new codebases fast
Rewards
- greenfield from day one
- real autonomy
- inventing new capability
- trustworthy output
- internal fix goes external
- startup pace
Demands
- thriving in ambiguity
- going where friction is
- syncing across teams
- seeing failure modes
- owning outcomes fully
Grows
- distributed systems judgment
- agentic system building
- product strategy sense
- fast codebase orientation
Values
- rigour over vibes
- self-directed engineers
- quality you can trust
- high ambition
- remote by default
Drains
- cross-timezone coordination
- evaluation harness upkeep
- untangling brittle automation
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