Principal Engineer (Go), Analytics

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

The Principal Engineer, Analytics provides technical leadership for the engineering teams across the Analytics stage, working closely as a key member of the leadership team in collaboration with counterparts across the organization. GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the overall direction of the Analytics stage and company-wide reporting and analytics initiatives by collaborating and making proposals across several teams on their engineering work, and helping their team members make informed decisions in alignment with strategic plans.
• Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams. Advise on resourcing requirements and provide feedback on promotions into technical leadership roles.
• Plan improvements and features with a 12-month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the stage.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity while looking for innovation opportunities between several teams and demonstrating a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
• Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives. Provide a point of escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department.
• Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products.

Examples of Initiatives You Will Work On

• Key member of the team providing architectural leadership for initiatives within and outside the Analytics stage including event-driven architecture, data platform development, reporting and analytics, and AI-powered insight development.
• Performance optimization - database decomposition, technical debt initiatives, scaling of features (moving features from the project to group to instance level) to support SaaS and self-managed customers.
• Improved instrumentation and metrics to inform.

Requirements

• Not specified

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and direction for the Analytics stage.
• Collaboration: Work closely with leadership and other teams.
• Mentorship: Teach, mentor, and grow other engineers.
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to strategic plans and OKR alignment.
• Problem Solving: Solve complex technical challenges.
• Architectural Design: Propose architectural changes for scalability and performance.
• Customer Interaction: Represent the work of the sub-department to customers and stakeholders.

Company Information

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. Learn more about Life at GitLab.