Senior Software Engineer, NLP
Skills
About the role
This is a senior software engineer role at GitLab, in-office in Bangalore, building autonomous AI agents for the software development lifecycle. You'll develop agents that automate tasks like merge request authoring, test generation and security remediation, and build the orchestration patterns and safety guardrails around them. It suits a senior engineer with AI/ML application experience who wants to lead technical execution and mentor others.
What you’ll do
- Build autonomous, agentic software development lifecycle features
- Develop and deploy AI agents that automate engineering tasks such as merge request authoring and test generation
- Collaborate with Product and AI/ML teams to break down requirements
- Write clean, maintainable code and conduct thorough code reviews
- Build and maintain orchestration patterns and safety guardrails for AI services
- Measure and improve performance, latency and correctness using evaluation frameworks
- Participate in on-call rotations and debug issues involving AI services
- Contribute to documentation, playbooks and mentoring of other engineers
What they’re looking for
- Experience building and shipping production-grade software applications
- Experience with AI/ML APIs, large language models or agentic frameworks in a web development context
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Ruby, Go or Python, with distributed systems experience
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD
- Experience with testing frameworks, observability tools and performance monitoring
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and collaborate across functions
- Experience mentoring junior and intermediate engineers
What’s on offer
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Questions about this role
Is this role remote?
No, this posting is listed as in-office in Bangalore.
How many years of experience do I need?
The posting does not state a specific number of years, but it is listed as a senior-level role.
What technologies will I work with?
Ruby, Go or Python, along with AI/ML APIs, large language models and agentic frameworks.
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