Backend Engineer (Python),AI Engineering: Agent Foundations

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Develop, ship and maintain features for the Duo Agent Platform in the Duo Workflow Service, the AI Gateway and, where needed, the GitLab monolith. Keep them secure, well-tested and performant.
• 2
  Build and improve agentic flows and their reusable parts with LangChain and LangGraph, including the Flow Registry.
• 3
  Work with Product Management, UX, frontend, backend and AI specialists to refine requirements and ship improvements in small iterations.
• 4
  Design, implement and review APIs (including GraphQL and REST) and the backend logic behind them, with reliable, scalable and clear contracts for clients such as the GitLab monolith, IDE extensions and Duo CLI.
• 5
  Improve and extend automated testing (pytest and other frameworks), including evaluations of agent and flow behavior, to strengthen quality and give developers faster feedback.
• 6
  Share standards, patterns and learnings with other engineers to raise the bar for responsible AI integration and evidence-driven engineering.
• 7
  Join Tier 2 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency.
• 8
  Keep an eye on the competitive landscape to help keep GitLab's agent platform best-in-class as more work becomes agentic.

Requirements

• Experience with LLM application frameworks such as LangGraph, or designing and shipping AI-powered backend features or harnesses.
• Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and/or JavaScript and Vue is a plus.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and/or JavaScript and Vue is a plus.
• 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 have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .

Perks & Benefits