Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: DAP Repository Flows

- Set and drive the technical direction for the DAP Repository Flows team, making architecture decisions that shape how onboarding and repository/background flows are built.

- Lead the design and delivery of autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases, building on top of the Duo Agent Platform.

- Design and refine the DAP onboarding experience so customers can get a project configured and productive quickly.

- Partner across teams in the broader DAP organization to align on interfaces, shared patterns, and platform capabilities.

- Mentor senior and intermediate engineers, review designs and code, and elevate the team's overall technical quality.

- Identify and resolve the hardest technical problems the team faces, and prevent them where possible through sound design.

- Contribute to a culture of autonomy, ownership, high context sharing, and async-first collaboration.

- Deep, hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in production systems.

- Demonstrated experience integrating LLMs into products (product integration, not ML model training).

- Experience building agentic systems : autonomous or semi-autonomous agents that take actions on a user's behalf.

- A track record of designing and shipping complex, high-scale systems and driving technical direction across teams.

- Strong written communication and the ability to operate effectively in a distributed, async-first environment.

- The judgment and influence expected of a staff-level engineer: setting direction, unblocking others, and multiplying the team's impact.

The DAP Repository Flows team is part of GitLab's broader Duo Agent Platform organization, within the AI/R&D group. The team is small and distributed, with plans to grow. We value autonomy, ownership, and high context sharing, and we work async-first through GitLab issues and Slack.