Software Engineer

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

• Act as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for the team's highest-scope initiatives from design through delivery
• Bring systems built by one engineer to team ownership through documentation, tests, and shared review
• Set the technical direction for the AI-assisted tooling that implements, reviews, and validates engine changes and findings
• Own the architecture of the program model (parsing, symbol resolution, intermediate representations, call graphs, and taint and data-flow analysis)
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
• Mentor all engineers on the team through code review and pairing
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Define the overarching architecture and specification documents for the engine
• Build and maintain the harness, agent instructions, and agentic skills that keep agent-written code trustworthy
• Stay current with research in program analysis and security

• Experience building your own LLM tooling, such as a harness, an agent pipeline, or evaluations
• Extensive professional experience writing, testing, and reviewing production code in Rust, Go, or a comparable systems language
• Depth in at least one systems language

• Remote, largely asynchronous environment