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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: Chat

GitLab · Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
GitLab's roles stay open a median of 76 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of GitLab's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at GitLab
high
229 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
Hiring momentum
338 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GitLab's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GitLab.

About this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Duo Chat team at GitLab, you will focus on building and maintaining AI capabilities for the GitLab Duo Chat platform. Your responsibilities include developing flow components, integrating large language models, and ensuring the performance and reliability of backend features. You will collaborate with various teams to refine requirements and participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.

What you need

  • Significant experience building and maintaining production Python backends, including APIs, data models, and asynchronous or long-running workloads.
  • Practical experience designing and shipping AI-powered, agentic backend features, including large language model integration, tool or function calling, and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Working proficiency in Ruby on Rails, or a strong willingness to learn it.
  • Proficiency designing or extending REST or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility.
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
  • Ability to find, diagnose, and prevent performance and reliability problems at scale.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph or LangChain.

What you get

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves working with AI technologies, which may require continuous learning and adaptation.
  • The position requires collaboration in an async-first, distributed team environment.

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Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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