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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is architecting agentic workflows and machine-readable schemas that automate platform readiness checks across GitLab's four deployment targets, so features ship faster with fewer late surprises.
If you light up at the boundary between what AI should decide and what a human must own, this is your playground: you get to architect agentic workflows from a blank page and turn messy, manual platform checks into intelligent automation that other engineers actually rely on. You will be the technical anchor of a brand new team, translating expertise from infrastructure, security and data folks into clean schemas, then mentoring others on how to do it well. It suits someone who loves building tooling for fellow engineers and cares deeply about doing it rigorously, with trust and human oversight built in.
Needs
- systems design
- building agentic workflows
- schema and validation
- integrating tools
- cross-team partnering
- mentoring engineers
Rewards
- automating manual toil
- shipping faster
- learning ai systems
- inventing new capability
- being the anchor
Demands
- ai-human boundaries
- risk reasoning
- new-team building
- explaining to execs
- remote coordination
Grows
- ai observability
- evaluation methodology
- human-ai collaboration
- technical direction
- tracing failures
Values
- human oversight
- engineer as user
- shared governance
- learning culture
- every voice heard
Drains
- governance loops
- schema wrangling
- writing decision records
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