Principal Engineer - Infrastructure Platforms
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An overview of this role
We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, or Platform Engineering to lead high-impact platform initiatives for our multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure. This role blends technical vision, architectural leadership, and organizational influence—shaping how GitLab’s infrastructure scales to meet both business demands and customer expectations.
You’ll own the technical roadmap across key areas of Production Engineering—spanning Observability, Network Edge, Disaster Recovery, and Runway—while partnering closely with our Database Operations and Cells teams.
You’ll also play a key role in mentoring senior engineers, helping to elevate technical excellence and maturity across the organization.
What you’ll do
Drive platform modernization by assessing current systems and leading strategic improvements to support future scale.
Partner closely with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural decisions align with long-term business objectives.
Collaborate with engineering leadership, Engineering Managers, and product teams to align production engineering efforts with overall platform strategy.
Work cross-functionally to anticipate and address evolving infrastructure needs, with particular focus on initiatives like Cells.
Shape how GitLab meets the infrastructure needs of other teams by uncovering patterns, addressing gaps, and identifying opportunities to enhance support.
Drive and shape roadmap discussions across SRE, observability, operations, and capacity planning to align technical direction with business priorities.
Lead architectural strategy to elevate resiliency, scalability, and performance across GitLab’s multi-tenant SaaS platform.
Look for opportunities to align technical solutions with our counterparts on Dedicated (the single-tenant SaaS platform)
Mentor senior engineers and work with EMs to ensure platform teams are equipped and aligned to support high-priority initiatives.
What you’ll bring
Strong background in backend, site reliability or platform engineering.
Proven experience designing, building, and scaling production infrastructure and platform services.
Strategic mindset with a strong ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives that enhanced system-level performance and reliability.
Skilled at driving alignment across engineering roadmaps involving multiple infrastructure teams.
Proficient in modern programming languages such as Go or Ruby.
Strong foundation in observability, infrastructure operations, and ensuring production readiness
Collaborative spirit and proven ability to mentor and influence engineers and leaders alike.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$171,400—$367,200 USD
About the job
Principal Engineer - Infrastructure Platforms
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote System Administration jobs
An overview of this role
We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, or Platform Engineering to lead high-impact platform initiatives for our multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure. This role blends technical vision, architectural leadership, and organizational influence—shaping how GitLab’s infrastructure scales to meet both business demands and customer expectations.
You’ll own the technical roadmap across key areas of Production Engineering—spanning Observability, Network Edge, Disaster Recovery, and Runway—while partnering closely with our Database Operations and Cells teams.
You’ll also play a key role in mentoring senior engineers, helping to elevate technical excellence and maturity across the organization.
What you’ll do
Drive platform modernization by assessing current systems and leading strategic improvements to support future scale.
Partner closely with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure architectural decisions align with long-term business objectives.
Collaborate with engineering leadership, Engineering Managers, and product teams to align production engineering efforts with overall platform strategy.
Work cross-functionally to anticipate and address evolving infrastructure needs, with particular focus on initiatives like Cells.
Shape how GitLab meets the infrastructure needs of other teams by uncovering patterns, addressing gaps, and identifying opportunities to enhance support.
Drive and shape roadmap discussions across SRE, observability, operations, and capacity planning to align technical direction with business priorities.
Lead architectural strategy to elevate resiliency, scalability, and performance across GitLab’s multi-tenant SaaS platform.
Look for opportunities to align technical solutions with our counterparts on Dedicated (the single-tenant SaaS platform)
Mentor senior engineers and work with EMs to ensure platform teams are equipped and aligned to support high-priority initiatives.
What you’ll bring
Strong background in backend, site reliability or platform engineering.
Proven experience designing, building, and scaling production infrastructure and platform services.
Strategic mindset with a strong ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives that enhanced system-level performance and reliability.
Skilled at driving alignment across engineering roadmaps involving multiple infrastructure teams.
Proficient in modern programming languages such as Go or Ruby.
Strong foundation in observability, infrastructure operations, and ensuring production readiness
Collaborative spirit and proven ability to mentor and influence engineers and leaders alike.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Remote-Global
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$171,400—$367,200 USD