Principal Engineer, Group Tenant Scale

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Requirements:

• Extensive background and strong technical expertise designing, implementing, and running distributed systems at massive scale.
• Comfortable with one or more computer programming languages (Ruby, Go)
• 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

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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