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GitLabPrincipal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated
GitLab is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join its Platform Engineering: Dedicated team. The employer provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that aids…
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GitLab is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join its Platform Engineering: Dedicated team. The employer provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that aids organizations in boosting developer productivity, enhancing operational efficiency, mitigating security and compliance risks, and accelerating digital transformations. In this influential technical leadership position, the professional will guide the architecture and platform strategy for GitLab Dedicated, which is a fully managed single-tenant software-as-a-service offering. The…
Job Description
GitLab is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join its Platform Engineering: Dedicated team. The employer provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that aids organizations in boosting developer productivity, enhancing operational efficiency, mitigating security and compliance risks, and accelerating digital transformations. In this influential technical leadership position, the professional will guide the architecture and platform strategy for GitLab Dedicated, which is a fully managed single-tenant software-as-a-service offering. The chosen candidate will shape how a growing fleet of isolated, customer-specific environments scales while keeping the security, compliance, and reliability standards that clients expect.
The role involves spearheading platform and operating-model changes concerning resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tools, and platform integrations. The engineer will also align the Dedicated platform with the company's modular and cell-based architecture evolution, improve service ownership, and implement scalable patterns to minimize operational complexity. Ideal candidates possess a strong background in site reliability, backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering, along with experience designing and maintaining large-scale production systems. The position suits professionals with a track record of driving complex multi-team initiatives, mentoring senior team members, and establishing automation and reusable platform patterns that curb operational toil.
Responsibilities
- Determine technical direction for GitLab Dedicated by shaping architecture and platform strategy for single-tenant environments
- Spearhead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations
- Drive scalable, modular architecture aligned with broader cell strategies while preserving security, isolation, and compliance needs
- Enhance service ownership and operational maturity to help engineering teams build and operate production systems
- Detect and resolve systemic reliability and scalability risks utilizing production metrics, incident patterns, and architectural insights
- Create reusable platform patterns and automation to reduce operational toil and enable efficient scaling
- Direct complex technical decisions across teams while balancing reliability, security, cost, maintainability, and user requirements
- Advance organizational engineering excellence via architectural leadership and mentorship for senior engineers
Requirements
- Deep expertise in site reliability, platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering
- Experience designing and operating large-scale production systems
- Hands-on background with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, infrastructure as code, and modern production engineering methods
- Software engineering fundamentals including building production systems or infrastructure tooling in languages such as Go, Ruby, or Python
- Distributed systems and systems-design expertise focusing on reliability, failure isolation, scalability, and operational complexity
- Demonstrated track record of technical leadership across multiple teams to drive complex initiatives
- Experience directing platform or infrastructure transformations involving modernization, modularization, or scaling through major growth
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
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What is the salary range for the Principal Site Reliability Engineer position?
The base salary range for this role is USD 223,200 to 380,400 per year for United States residents, though exact figures depend on factors like experience, location, and interviews.
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This position is full-time.
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The job posting states that all roles at the company are remote, though certain positions may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.
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