Senior Backend Engineer, Platform ReadinessActive

The opportunity

The Platform Readiness team is part of GitLab Developer Experience, building internal developer tooling capability for platform readiness across GitLab's four deployment targets: Self-Managed, Dedicated, Dedicated for Government, and GitLab. com.

What you'll do

  • Contribute to the Platform Readiness team's agentic workflows on the Duo: Agent Platform: design, implement, and evolve the Core Agentic Workflow (currently published to the AI Catalog as a DAP flow) and the Requirements Agent, enabling automated evaluation of platform readiness assessments against platform requirements

  • Evolve the platform requirements knowledge base: contribute to schema design, validation tooling, and CI systems that power the agentic workflow; ensure the schema captures the full scope of platform readiness concerns across all four platforms and domains

  • Build integration surfaces that enable feature teams to engage the Platform: Readiness team where they already work: issues, merge requests, design documents, and CI/CD pipelines

  • Partner with platform teams (Infrastructure, Security, Data) to translate: their expertise into structured platform requirements, domain skills, and validation logic without requiring specific domain knowledge

  • Contribute to the quality control feedback loop: design systems that surface assessment errors, missed gaps, and content drift back to the governance loop for continuous improvement; measure and improve assessment accuracy and guidance relevance

  • Mentor other engineers on the team in agentic-workflow standards, prompt: discipline, evaluation methodology, and the principles of human-AI collaboration in platform readiness

What they're looking for

  • Contribute to technical documentation and architectural decision records that: document the Platform Readiness team's technical evolution and rationale for key design choices