Principal Engineer, GitLab
Govern
$157.9-338.4k
Salary applicable to candidate based in CA ,CO, HI, NJ, NY, WA, other locations may vary + Equity
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$157.9-338.4k
Salary applicable to candidate based in CA ,CO, HI, NJ, NY, WA, other locations may vary + Equity
1001+ employees
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.
Role
Who you are
- Significant professional experience as a Principal or Staff Engineer, or relevant hands-on management and leadership experience, across multiple development teams
- Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails. Significant experience with Vue.js, GraphQL, and Postgres is also a plus
- Expert knowledge and experience in CI/CD using DevSecOps best practices and a strong interest working across security and compliance development
- Experience in scaling a mission-critical SaaS product
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex problems and solutions
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
What the job involves
- The Principal Engineer, Govern provides technical leadership for the engineering teams in the sub-department, working closely as a key member of the leadership team in collaboration with counterparts across the organization
- Contribute to the overall direction of the Govern stage by collaborating and making proposals across several teams on their engineering work, and helping their team members make informed decisions in alignment with strategic plans
- Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams. Advise on resourcing requirements and provide feedback on promotions into technical leadership roles
- Plan improvements and features with a 6 month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the sub-department
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity while looking for innovation opportunities between several teams and demonstrating a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope
- Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives
- Provide a point of escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges
- Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems
- Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department
- Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products
- Key member of the team providing architectural leadership for initiatives across the Govern sub-department including Vulnerability and Dependency Management, Compliance and Security Policies, Authentication and Authorization, SLSA L3 compliance, and AI feature development
- Performance optimization - database decomposition, technical debt initiatives, scaling of features (moving features from the project to group to instance level) to support SaaS and self-managed customers
- Improved instrumentation and metrics to inform feature development and support results for customer
- Cross-stage alignment of technical direction within Secure and Govern and across all the stages in the DevSecOps lifecycle
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 capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected 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
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.7m
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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