Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated

GitLab
Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 223,200 - 380,400 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Technical communication","Influence","Mentorship","Systems thinking","Judgment"]

Lead technical direction for scaling GitLab Dedicated, a fully managed single-tenant SaaS offering. Drive platform and operating-model transformation across resilience and failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations. Help align Dedicated with GitLab’s modular, cell-based architecture while strengthening service ownership and operational maturity. Use production signals and incident insights to reduce reliability and scalability risk, and establish reusable patterns and automation to scale efficiently.

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Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated

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Job Summary

Lead technical direction for scaling GitLab Dedicated, a fully managed single-tenant SaaS offering. Drive platform and operating-model transformation across resilience and failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations. Help align Dedicated with GitLab’s modular, cell-based architecture while strengthening service ownership and operational maturity. Use production signals and incident insights to reduce reliability and scalability risk, and establish reusable patterns and automation to scale efficiently.
Location: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, shaping architecture and platform strategy as the single-tenant fleet scales.
  • •Lead transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations.
  • •Drive scalable, modular architecture aligned with GitLab’s Cells strategy while preserving security, isolation, and compliance.
  • •Strengthen service ownership and operational maturity so teams can build, operate, and improve production systems.
  • •Identify and address systemic reliability and scalability risks using production signals and incident patterns, and establish reusable automation to reduce operational toil.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 223,200 - 380,400 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveEquityLearning BudgetParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering, including designing and operating large-scale production systems.
  • •Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, infrastructure as code, and modern production engineering practices.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals building production systems or infrastructure tooling in languages such as Go, Ruby, Python, or similar.
  • •Expertise in distributed systems and systems design, with strong judgment on reliability, failure isolation, scalability, and operational complexity.
  • •Proven technical leadership across multiple teams, driving complex platform or infrastructure transformations through influence.
Experience:SaaSSingle-tenantDevSecOpsCloud infrastructureSite reliability
Skills:Technical communicationInfluenceMentorshipSystems thinkingJudgment
Tech Stack:GoRubyPythonCloud infrastructureAutomationObservabilityInfrastructure as codeDistributed systems

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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