GitLab

Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

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Base Salary

$223k - $380k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and architecture strategy for GitLab Dedicated and its fleet of isolated, single-tenant environments.
  • Lead platform transformations involving resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and integrations.
  • Drive modular and scalable architecture aligned with GitLab’s Cells strategy while preserving security, isolation, and compliance.
  • Identify reliability and scalability risks using production signals, incident patterns, and architectural analysis.
  • Create reusable platform patterns and automation that reduce operational toil and improve scalability.
  • Lead complex cross-team technical decisions and advance engineering excellence through architectural leadership and mentorship.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in site reliability, platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering with experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, infrastructure as code, and modern production engineering practices.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building production systems or infrastructure tooling in Go, Ruby, Python, or similar languages.
  • Strong distributed-systems and systems-design expertise, including reliability, failure isolation, scalability, and operational complexity.
  • Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving complex initiatives through influence.
  • Experience leading significant platform or infrastructure transformations and improving how engineering teams own and operate production systems.
  • Exceptional technical communication, influence, mentoring, and architectural decision-making skills.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
  • Remote work arrangement; location-based eligibility requirements may apply.

Tech Stack

Categories

Site Reliability
GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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