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As a Backend Engineer on GitLab’s MLOps team, you will be at the forefront of shaping the future of machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps). You will play a critical role in enabling GitLab customers to build and integrate their data science workloads directly within GitLab, driving innovation for teams across the globe.
One of the key challenges you’ll help solve is moving our Experimental and Beta MLOps features to General Availability (GA). You’ll work closely with a small, highly collaborative team of engineers, using technologies like Ruby, MLFlow, and GitLab to deliver robust MLOps solutions. As part of this team, you will interact with multiple stakeholders across different functions, including teams working on Custom Models, Model Evaluation, and AI Frameworks.
The team currently includes two Staff Fullstack Engineers and is set to grow by adding two more Backend Engineers. This expansion allows you to impact the product and the larger GitLab community directly, ensuring our MLOps features meet the highest standards and serve a wide range of users. Whether you're located in AMER, EMEA, or APAC, this remote-first team offers the flexibility to collaborate globally while having a significant voice in the direction of MLOps at GitLab.
Success in this role means delivering against your assigned work, contributing to the team’s goals, and helping GitLab push the boundaries of MLOps and LLMOps. With growth plans on the horizon, this is a great opportunity to be part of a pioneering team at the cutting edge of machine learning.
To dive deeper into the team's work and roadmap, check out our handbook and Group Direction.
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About the team
The MLOps team at GitLab is on a mission to empower users to seamlessly integrate and manage their data science workloads within the GitLab platform. Our goal is to make machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) more accessible, ensuring that teams can build, train, evaluate, and deploy their models directly from GitLab. By integrating these complex workflows, we help teams enhance productivity, streamline model deployment, and ensure continuous integration and delivery for machine learning models.
One of the key challenges we’re working on is moving our Experimental and Beta features to General Availability (GA). This means you’ll be contributing to making MLOps a core part of the GitLab platform, helping users efficiently manage models, from custom model development to serving models using frameworks like MLFlow, Kubernetes, and deep learning tools such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
What makes the MLOps team interesting is not just the technology we work with but also our dedication to transparency and open collaboration. Thanks to GitLab's value of openness, you can see exactly what we’re working on, including our roadmap and even some of our meetings. This level of visibility allows everyone, including you, to contribute and stay informed.
Our team is still growing, and we’re set to expand by adding Backend Engineers to help scale these efforts. We work closely with other teams, such as Custom Models, Model Evaluation, and AI Frameworks, to deliver features that support a wide range of machine learning use cases.
Want to learn more? You can dive into the full details on our MLOps team page and explore how we’re transforming MLOps and LLMOps at GitLab.
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
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