Principal Engineer, GitLab
Production Engineering
$171.4-367.2k
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Be an early applicant
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$171.4-367.2k
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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
- Proven expertise designing and operating distributed systems at massive scale in SaaS or cloud platforms
- Strong background in backend, reliability, or platform engineering, with hands-on experience in Go, Ruby, or similar languages
- Deep understanding of observability, incident response, and strategies for ensuring reliability in complex systems
- Ability to drive alignment across teams and influence senior leaders without formal authority
- Track record of delivering technical outcomes that shaped business direction
- Strong communicator who can simplify complex topics for engineers, executives, and customers alike
- Passion for mentoring and developing senior technical talent
What the job involves
- GitLab.com is one of the largest DevSecOps platforms in the world
- As a Principal Engineer on the Production Engineering team, you will shape how it scales for reliability, performance, and global reach
- This is a career-defining opportunity to guide the technical strategy for GitLab’s multi-tenant SaaS platform, tackling challenges that few companies face at this scale
- You will influence infrastructure decisions across Observability, Disaster Recovery, Fleet Management, and Service Delivery, while partnering with product and executive leadership to align technology with business outcomes
- Your work will set the foundation for how millions of users experience GitLab and how thousands of engineers across the company deliver value
- You'll own the long-term roadmap for Production Engineering, driving modernization and scale initiatives that directly impact GitLab.com availability and performance
- Lead design for complex distributed systems challenges such as sharding, multi-tenant isolation, observability, and failure recovery
- Collaborate with leaders across engineering and product to ensure infrastructure choices deliver both technical and business value
- Anticipate evolving needs at scale and define patterns that make our platform more resilient, efficient, and cost-effective
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, multiplying impact by raising technical excellence across teams
- Champion observability and production readiness practices that improve the speed and quality at which we ship features to customers, along with improving reliability for customers worldwide
- Production Engineering is responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of GitLab.com, one of the largest SaaS platforms in the world
- The team builds the infrastructure and practices that keep GitLab.com available and resilient, covering areas such as observability, disaster recovery, fleet management, and service delivery
- Our mission is to ensure every GitLab.com customer benefits from a stable, performant, and production-ready platform
- We partner across engineering to embed reliability into how GitLab ships software while balancing modernization with efficiency and cost-effectiveness
- As part of this team, you will be at the forefront of GitLab.com’s evolution
- You will help guide the strategy for operating at massive scale, solve complex distributed systems challenges, and shape the foundation on which thousands of engineers and millions of users rely every day
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
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: $434.8m
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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