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Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated
GitLab
Remote · United StatesSalary not disclosedfull-timeGitLab Careers
An overview of this role We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, or Platform Engineering to help shape the next phase of GitLab Dedicated, our fully managed single-tenant SaaS offering. This highly influential technical leadership role will set direction for how we scale a growing fleet of isolated, customer-specific environments while maintaining the reliability, security, and compliance our customers depend on.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, shaping architecture and platform strategy as we scale a growing fleet of isolated, single-tenant environments.
- Lead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations.
- Drive scalable, modular architecture that aligns Dedicated with GitLab’s broader Cells strategy while preserving its security, isolation, and compliance requirements.
- Strengthen service ownership and operational maturity, helping engineering teams build, operate, and improve the production systems they own.
- Identify and address systemic reliability and scalability risks using production signals, incident patterns, and architectural insight.
- Establish reusable platform patterns and automation that reduce operational toil and allow Dedicated to scale efficiently.
- Lead complex technical decisions across teams, balancing reliability, security, cost, maintainability, and customer needs.
- Advance engineering excellence across the organization through architectural leadership, mentorship, and influence with senior engineers and engineering leaders.
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Posted
- 23 Sept 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days