Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
GitLab

GitLab

GitLab: The comprehensive DevOps platform revolutionizing software development with automation, AI workflows, and essential tools for efficient collaboration.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014

Description

  • Define GitLab’s technical vision and roadmap for autonomous, agentic SDLC capabilities.
  • Identify high-impact opportunities across planning, coding, testing, security, compliance, releases, and operations.
  • Lead hands-on experiments and prototypes for autonomous merge requests, test creation, security remediation, release readiness, and incident response.
  • Design reference architectures with orchestration, safety guardrails, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks and measure correctness, latency, safety, cost, cycle time, MTTR, and merge-request throughput.
  • Own internal pathfinder use cases through adoption and measurable productivity improvements.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Data and ML, Security, Compliance, Reliability, and SRE teams.
  • Codify reusable patterns, libraries, playbooks, design documents, and architecture decisions.
  • Translate proven internal capabilities into secure, reliable customer-facing product features.
  • Mentor senior engineers and represent GitLab in industry, standards, and open-source communities.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership role.
  • Deep expertise in AI/ML systems, large language models, agentic frameworks, and autonomous workflows at production scale.
  • Experience leading technical experimentation, benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and architecture decisions.
  • Strong background in scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems, fault tolerance, observability, and operational resilience.
  • Experience implementing human-in-the-loop controls, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to align Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data and ML teams on ambiguous technical challenges.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority.
  • Excellent written and asynchronous communication skills in a fully remote, globally distributed organization.
  • Familiarity with GitLab’s DevSecOps platform, CI/CD primitives, and software development lifecycle preferred.

Benefits

  • United States base salary range of $250,000–$349,000, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.
  • Benefits supporting employee health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Fully remote work environment.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Senior EPM Consultant/Lead Developer

Performance Architects 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Performance Architects is hiring Senior Consultants/Lead Developers to deliver custom Oracle EPM Planning implementations and support business and technical solution development across the full project lifecycle.

22 hours, 30 minutes ago

Team Lead, Android Core Product - Las Vegas, NV, USA

Speechify 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Speechify is hiring a remote Android Team Lead to build and release core text-to-speech product features while improving engineering practices, reliability, and team effectiveness.

Android CI/CD iOS Jetpack Compose JUnit Kotlin Node.js
22 hours, 45 minutes ago

Team Lead, Android Core Product - Newcastle, United Kingdom

Speechify 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Speechify is seeking a remote Android Team Lead to build core features for its text-to-speech app while improving engineering practices, reliability, and team delivery.

Android CI/CD iOS Jetpack Compose JUnit Kotlin Node.js
22 hours, 45 minutes ago

Tech Lead, Android Core Product - Bratislava, Slovakia

Speechify 51-250 Internet Software & Services

Speechify is hiring a Senior Android Engineer to support and expand its widely used text-to-speech Android app while delivering reliable, user-focused features in a fully distributed team.

Android iOS Jetpack Compose JUnit Kotlin Node.js
22 hours, 45 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers