# Principal Engineer, Duo Agent Platform at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8786095002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-principal-engineer-duo-agent-platform/

## About the role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help build GitLab Duo Agent Platform, the agentic orchestration layer that runs AI agents and flows across the entire software lifecycle.

## What they're looking for

- Define the technical direction for a significant area of Duo Agent Platform across several teams, and partner with Engineering Managers and Product to turn it into a roadmap with a six-month horizon
- Hands on work on driving topics throughout the whole organisation from POC level, architecture to full implementation
- Participate in Incident Management on-call rotation, to help meet availability goals for GitLab.com
- Strong product builder and ownership mentality. Understanding of product strategy, technical strategy, delivering customer value and iteration towards a successful product
- Use the platform on our own work, find where it falls short of what we claim, and feed that back through improvements into the product
- Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, and raise the bar for experimentation rigor and cross-team collaboration

Tags: AI Engineering