Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/AI), Verify at Gitlab

<div class="content-intro">GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</div><div class="c-message_actions__container c-message__actions"> <h2>An overview of this role</h2> As a Staff Backend Engineer (AI) in the Verify stage at GitLab, you ll help shape and scale the core infrastructure behind GitLab CI. You ll play a central role in how we integrate AI into CI/CD workflows. Your work will impact performance, reliability, and usability for people running millions of CI jobs, from small teams to the largest enterprises. AI is a top priority in the year ahead. In this role, you ll go beyond using AI tools and help define how we design, build, and iterate on AI-assisted and agentic CI experiences. You ll set standards for what good looks like across our AI agent portfolio, including how we measure success, how we instrument behavior in production, and how we account for large language model limitations. You ll also help responsibly integrate GitLab s Duo Agent Platform into CI workflows at scale, on a foundation that s fast, reliable, secure, and observable. We have ambitious goals for <a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/20586">Agentic CI in FY27</a>. As a Staff Engineer, you will: <ul> <li>Partner with Engineering, Product, and UX leadership to pressure-test our priorities: where we can move faster, where we re missing data, and where there s whitespace to innovate. Part of this includes learning and growing with the Engineering team you will collaborate closely with.</li> <li>Define what success looks like across our agent portfolio and make sure we re tracking against it — not just shipping, but learning.</li> <li>Bring a sharp eye to the competitive landscape, helping us understand what it takes to keep GitLab CI best-in-class in an increasingly agentic world.</li> <li>Examples of Agentic CI work we have planned for the upcoming year:</li> <ul> <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/20443">AI Pipeline Builder</a>, the foundational CI agent that auto-creates pipelines for new projects and serves as the launchpad for onboarding new CI users.</li> <li>Automate the <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/588753">Fix a Failing Pipeline flow</a> at scale – from dogfooding on internal GitLab projects through to safe, controlled rollout for customers, solving real infrastructure and scalability challenges.</li> <li>Build the <

Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/AI), Verify

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