Staff Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity is open at GitLab (Remote, Canada; Remote, United States). The posting gives a salary of $153K - $259K. Posted on Aug 5, 2026, and still on GitLab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, from how agents are orchestrated to where a step should stay human-owned, and defend those calls once they're tested against real code. Discover and prioritize sources of friction across GitLab's SDLC, driving the fix — agentic, process-based, or both — from a rough hypothesis through to a shipped, measured result. Work across any part of GitLab's codebase…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on GitLab’s careers page.
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