Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity

GitLab

Remote regions

Global

Salary range

$250,000–$349,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

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Technical Vision and Strategy:

  • Define a multi-year technical roadmap for autonomous, agentic SDLC capabilities.
  • Identify non-linear productivity opportunities across planning, coding, review, security, and operations.
  • Translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete, iterable roadmaps with Product and Architecture teams.

Hands-On Experimentation and Validation:

  • Lead prototypes to validate agentic workflows in production-adjacent environments.
  • Build evaluation frameworks using offline benchmarks and online experiments to measure correctness, latency, safety, and cost.
  • Own high-impact internal use cases from concept through adoption to measurable productivity gains.

Cross-Team Collaboration and Mentorship:

  • Act as a bridge between Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Data/ML teams.
  • Mentor Principal and Staff engineers to raise technical execution and experimentation rigor.
  • Write clear design documents and decision records to enable aligned, high-quality decisions across teams.

GitLab

GitLab provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations accelerate developer productivity and digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance, remote-first culture where AI is embedded into daily workflows and continuous knowledge exchange drives innovation.

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