Principal Software Engineer, GitLab

Group Tenant Scale

$157.9-338.4k

+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Washington, DC, Illinois, and Minnesota, other locations may vary

Ruby

Golang

Senior and Expert level

Remote in Canada, EU, UK, US

One DevOps platform

Open for applications

One DevOps platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Open for applications

$157.9-338.4k

+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Washington, DC, Illinois, and Minnesota, other locations may vary

Ruby

Golang

Senior and Expert level

Remote in Canada, EU, UK, US

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Company mission

To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are looking for a Principal Engineer with strong distributed systems background and experience who can help us build and deliver on this vision
Extensive background and strong technical expertise designing, implementing, and running distributed systems at massive scale
Comfortable with one or more computer programming languages; Preferably Ruby and/or Golang
Production experience with cloud computing
Proven track record of leading large-scale SaaS product architectures and delivering exceptional business outcomes
Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate team performance
Adept at balancing high-level business needs with deep technical decisions
Good communication and ability to work with stakeholders independently

What the job involves

Group Tenant Scale (GTS) is building GitLab’s next generation, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, resilient SaaS platform, and we want to invite you to become a part of our mission to craft the foundations that aim to enable the rest of our engineering peers and partners to deliver rock-solid features and capabilities to enable our customers’ success
Technical leader in the design and evolution of GitLab’s multi-tenant platform into distributed systems, from architecture, transition, and operational points of view
Gain deep knowledge of our product, and customer use cases to guide architecture decisions with availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, and cost in mind
Provide technical leadership across both infrastructure and development areas, Take ownership of critical projects, independently driving them to deliver results with the highest levels of quality and efficiency
Take ownership of critical projects, independently driving them to deliver results with the highest levels of quality and efficiency
Bring creativity and a customer-focused approach to influence the strategic direction of our platforms and product offerings
Partner and collaborate with engineering, product and leadership teams to ensure alignment on technical, product, and business goals and exceed customer needs and expectations
Foster a strong and healthy engineering culture that focuses on innovation and collaboration, mentoring and guiding engineers at all levels
Specific challenges include backend API design and implementation with built in access control, throttling, and observability, architecting for zero downtime, transparent relocation, and application and infrastructure hardening in a distributed systems environment

Our take

GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.

According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.

GitLab was in the right place to capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (1.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Sep 2019

$268m

SERIES E

Dec 2018

$20m

SERIES D

Total funding: $434.4m

Company benefits

We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
Generous Paid Time Off

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sid Sijbrandij

(CEO)

Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.

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