Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Define the technical vision for GitLab Dedicated, influencing the architecture and platform strategy as we expand a growing array of isolated, single-tenant environments.

• Spearhead platform transformations encompassing resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations.

• Propel scalable, modular architecture that aligns with GitLab’s comprehensive Cells strategy while maintaining security, isolation, and compliance standards.

• Enhance service ownership and operational maturity, assisting engineering teams in building, managing, and refining the production systems they oversee.

• Identify and mitigate systemic reliability and scalability risks by utilizing production signals, incident patterns, and architectural insights.

• Develop reusable platform patterns and automation processes that minimize operational toil, enabling Dedicated to scale effectively.

• Guide intricate technical decisions across teams, carefully balancing reliability, security, cost, maintainability, and customer requirements.

• Promote engineering excellence through architectural guidance, mentorship, and influence among senior engineers and engineering leaders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Profound knowledge in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering, with a background in designing and managing large-scale production systems.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, infrastructure as code, and contemporary production engineering techniques.

• Strong foundational skills in software engineering, with a history of building production systems or infrastructure tools using languages such as Go, Ruby, Python, or similar.

• Extensive expertise in distributed systems and system design, with sound judgment regarding reliability, failure isolation, scalability, and operational complexity.

• A proven record of technical leadership across various teams, establishing direction and driving complex initiatives through influence.

• Experience in leading significant platform or infrastructure transformations, including modernization, modularization, or scaling systems during substantial growth phases.

• Proven ability to lead changes that enhance how engineering teams manage and operate production systems, reinforcing reliability, operational readiness, and accountability at scale.

• Outstanding technical communication and influence skills, with the capacity to promote alignment, mentor senior engineers, and navigate complex architectural decisions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Access to Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.