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An overview of this role
Are you a seasoned backend engineer with a passion for AI? GitLab has an exciting opportunity for you! Join our remote team working on GitLab Duo Chat, a cutting-edge AI feature. Your main challenge: enhance AI capabilities, add tools, and ensure a robust system. We're an agile, collaborative team, interacting with backend engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
Success is measured by your code quality and contributions to GitLab Duo Chat. This role offers a chance to shape the future of AI chat tech. If you have skills in Ruby on Rails, Python, AI tech, and GitLab Duo Chat experience, plus extras like GraphQL and RSpec, we want you!
What you’ll do
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team.
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.
Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Improves the engineering projects at GitLab as a project maintainer. For more information regarding timelines and exceptions, see this page.
What you’ll bring
Ruby on Rails professional experience (5+ years preferred)
Experience with Python development
Knowledge of AI technologies, experience with GitLab Duo Chat a plus
Experience with GraphQL and RSpec.
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for achieving consensus and success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
Positive and solution-oriented mindset
An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
You are familiar with working in an open source environment
You are comfortable working in a cross-functional organization
You are able to thrive in a fully remote organization
You are able to use GitLab
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
Bonus qualifications
Experience with large language models
Experience with Google Vertex AI and Anthropic
Experience with debugging and testing AI features
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to adapt quickly to new information
About the team
Welcome to the heart of innovation at GitLab! Picture this: a remote team, spanning across the globe, passionately working on GitLab Duo Chat, a game-changing feature fueled by AI.
The challenge? It's thrilling. This team is on a mission to enhance the AI capabilities of GitLab Duo Chat. From crafting and iterating prompts to integrating cutting-edge tools, they're dedicated to ensuring a robust and error-resistant system. The roadmap? Think improving debugging and testing processes, adding new tools to the mix, and pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities.
What's in it for you? The chance to shape the future of AI-powered chat at GitLab. Imagine contributing to a key feature that's central to GitLab's success. Your success will be measured by the quality of your code and your impact on the enhancement of GitLab Duo Chat.
How GitLab will support you
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
All remote , asynchronous work environment
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and development budget
Parental leave
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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