Staff Backend Engineer (AI), Verify

Remote, Canada; Remote, Ireland; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, US

Remote

Senior

Full Time

3 days ago

AIRuby on RailsPostgreSQLCI/CDRemoteStaff Engineer

Requirements

•Advanced proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, with experience building and maintaining reliable backend services in a large codebase.
•Strong PostgreSQL skills, including data modeling, query tuning, and scaling large tables through proactive performance investigation and remediation.
•Hands-on experience building, running, and debugging high-traffic production systems, ideally in CI, workflow orchestration, or adjacent infrastructure-heavy domains.
•Practical experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features and integrations, including sound judgment about large language model limitations and responsible use in production.
•A data-driven approach to engineering: defining hypotheses, establishing baseline metrics, instrumenting changes, and measuring outcomes against clear success criteria.
•Familiarity with observability patterns and tools (metrics, logging, tracing) to diagnose issues, improve reliability, and guide iteration.
•Strong backend architecture and delivery practices, including secure design, well-tested code, and strategies for safe rollouts and zero-downtime changes.
•Clear written and verbal communication skills, including writing technical proposals and documentation, and collaborating effectively in a remote, asynchronous, cross-functional environment.

•Shape and scale GitLab CI backend infrastructure to improve performance, reliability, and usability for users running jobs at high volume.
•Design and implement AI-powered features for Agentic CI, including agents, agentic flows, and LLM-backed tooling that integrates with GitLab's Duo Agent Platform.
•Define what success looks like for AI in CI before you build, including baselines, measurable outcomes, and clear signals that help the team learn and iterate.
•Build the instrumentation and observability needed to make AI-assisted CI trustworthy in production, including feature behavior metrics, dashboards, and safeguards.
•Own and drive measurable performance improvements across CI systems by forming hypotheses, running experiments, and validating results with data.
•Write secure, well-tested, maintainable Ruby on Rails code in a large monolith, improving existing features while reducing technical debt and operational risk.
•Lead cross-functional technical work with Product, UX, and Infrastructure, influencing architecture and execution across the Verify stage.
•Share standards, patterns, and learnings with other engineers, raising the bar for responsible AI integration and evidence-driven engineering across CI.