Engineering Manager, Trusted Agentic Development

Job summary

Responsibilities

The Trusted Agentic Development team sits within GitLab's Developer Experience group and builds the platforms our own engineers rely on every day. GitLab engineers increasingly build software with artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

• Validation that confirms agent-generated code does what was intended, so a passing suite means a working feature and not just a satisfied proxy.
• Mid-loop feedback that helps an agent self-correct toward working software instead of green assertions.
• Language-aware approaches under one shared model of what "trusted" means, starting with Rust, Ruby, and Go, while allowing the right technique to differ by language.
• Real measurement of whether engineers trust and adopt the path, with findings fed directly back into the platform.
• Build and grow the team by hiring and developing engineers who practice agentic development, and create a culture that treats this as an open problem to solve rather than a…

What they're looking for

• Direct experience using AI agents to build software, including lessons from successes and missteps and a clear point of view on why a passing test suite isn't the same as working…
• Experience leading engineering teams through ambiguous, early-stage problems where the right approach wasn't yet known.
• The ability to drive adoption through influence and a useful product rather than through mandate, including partnering across teams you don't manage.
• Technical depth to engage credibly in architecture and validation strategy discussions and earn the trust of senior engineers.
• Experience designing distributed systems designed to run on Kubernetes first.

Tech stack

• Rust
• Go
• Kubernetes