Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineering: AI Coding

An overview of this role

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, and more than 100,000 organizations use it. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We make this possible by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.

The AI Events team builds the event platform and trigger system that power GitLab Duo Flows, enabling them to run automatically in response to events across the development lifecycle. The platform handles internal GitLab events like code pushes, issue and merge request changes, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline results, and deployments, as well as custom events from third-party tools like Jira, Jenkins, and Slack. Flow Triggers link projects to flows, firing automatically when matching events occur, so that AI-powered workflows like automated code review can run without anyone lifting a finger.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll join a small, close-knit team that maintains infrastructure that many of GitLab's AI features rely on. You'll likely spend much of your time on the triggers side of the platform, linking events across GitLab and third-party tools to the AI workflows that act on them. This part of the system needs to handle significant scale and stay highly available, since it's core to automated AI-enabled work across the platform.

What you’ll do

• Design and build the trigger system that links GitLab events, including code pushes, merge request and issue changes, CI/CD results, and deployments, and third-party events from tools like Jira, Jenkins, and Slack to the AI-powered Duo Flows that act on them.
• Contribute to the broader event platform, the core infrastructure that many of GitLab's AI features rely on to know when and how to run.
• Architect for high availability and throughput, since this part of the system sits at the center of automated AI workflows across GitLab and needs to reliably process events at scale.
• Work within GitLab's Rails monolith, where much of the event and trigger system lives, while staying open to other languages used elsewhere in the platform.
• Influence product and architecture direction by proposing iterative solutions to complex technical problems across a multi-service environment.
• Collaborate closely with yo