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GitLabPrincipal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated
GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, and lower security and compliance risks. The platform serves…
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GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, and lower security and compliance risks. The platform serves over 50 million registered users, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. Team members at GitLab incorporate artificial intelligence into their everyday workflows as a primary productivity multiplier. The organization seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to focus on Platform Engineering within…
Job Description
GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, and lower security and compliance risks. The platform serves over 50 million registered users, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. Team members at GitLab incorporate artificial intelligence into their everyday workflows as a primary productivity multiplier.
The organization seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to focus on Platform Engineering within the GitLab Dedicated group. This remote position involves shaping the future of a fully managed, single-tenant SaaS offering. The incoming engineer will define the architecture and platform strategy for scaling a growing collection of isolated, customer-specific environments while preserving reliability, security, and compliance standards. Responsibilities include driving transformations in resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations. The person in this role will also guide the architecture toward modular and cell-based models, enhance service ownership across teams, and establish standardized patterns to cut down operational complexity.
This influential technical leadership position requires deep experience in backend, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering. Ideal candidates have a track record of designing large-scale production systems, strong distributed systems knowledge, and experience leading major infrastructure transformations through influence. The salary range for US-based candidates is $223,200 to $380,400 per year, exclusive of equity, bonuses, and benefits.
Responsibilities
- Establish technical direction and shape platform strategy for GitLab Dedicated
- Lead platform transformations across failover, resilience, tenant orchestration, and change management
- Drive scalable and modular architecture that aligns with GitLab Cells strategy while maintaining security and isolation
- Improve operational maturity and service ownership for engineering teams
- Identify and mitigate systemic scalability and reliability risks utilizing production metrics and incident patterns
- Build reusable automation and platform patterns to minimize operational toil
- Guide complex technical choices across teams while balancing maintainability, security, and cost
- Mentor senior engineers and champion engineering excellence across the organization
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Hands-on background with cloud infrastructure, observability, infrastructure as code, and automation
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering with experience creating production systems or infrastructure tooling in Go, Python, Ruby, or similar languages
- Extensive experience in distributed systems and systems design focused on reliability and failure isolation
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams with a history of driving complex initiatives through influence
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this position remote?
Yes, GitLab roles are remote, though certain positions may have specific location-based eligibility requirements.
What is the salary range for this role?
For United States residents, the base salary range is $223,200 to $380,400 per year, which does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits.
What type of employment is this?
This is a full-time employment position.
What experience is required for this position?
Candidates need deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, along with hands-on cloud infrastructure experience, strong software engineering fundamentals in languages like Go, Ruby, or Python, and distributed systems expertise.
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