Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

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GitLabDevSecOps Platform
Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary223,200 - 380,400 USD per year
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Job Details

Required Skills
PythonRubyGo

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code and modern production engineering practices.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in Go, Ruby, or Python.
  • Expertise in distributed systems and systems design.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership across multiple teams.
  • Experience leading platform or infrastructure transformations including modernization and scaling.
  • Experience improving operational readiness and service ownership.
  • Exceptional technical communication and influence skills.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, shaping architecture and platform strategy.
  • Lead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, and self-service tooling.
  • Drive scalable, modular architecture that aligns Dedicated with broader Cells strategy.
  • Strengthen service ownership and operational maturity across engineering teams.
  • Identify and address systemic reliability and scalability risks using production signals and incident patterns.
  • Establish reusable platform patterns and automation to reduce operational toil.
  • Lead complex technical decisions balancing reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
  • Advance engineering excellence through architectural leadership and mentorship.
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