GitLab

Principal Engineer, Group Tenant Scale

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Software Development, SaaSIndustries

Position Overview

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

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. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Group Tenant Scale (GTS) is building GitLab’s next generation, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, resilient SaaS platform, and we want to invite you to become a part of our mission to craft the foundations that enable the rest of our engineering peers and partners to deliver rock-solid features and capabilities to increase our customers’ success. We are looking for a Principal Engineer with a strong distributed systems background and experience in designing, building and operating large-scale cloud systems who can help us deliver on this vision.

Some examples of our projects:

  • Cells
  • Organizations
  • OrgMover

Requirements

  • Extensive background and strong technical expertise designing, implementing, and running distributed systems at massive scale.
  • Comfortable with one or more computer programming languages (Ruby, Go).
  • Production experience with cloud computing.
  • Proven track record of leading large-scale SaaS product architectures and delivering results.

Responsibilities

  • Technical leader in the design and evolution of GitLab’s multi-tenant platform into distributed systems, from architecture, transition, and operational points of view.
  • Gain deep knowledge of our product, and customer use cases to guide architecture decisions with availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, and cost in mind.
  • Provide technical leadership across both infrastructure and development areas.
  • Take ownership of critical projects, independently driving them to deliver results with the highest levels of quality and efficiency.
  • Bring creativity and a customer-focused approach to influence the strategic direction of our platforms and product offerings.
  • Partner and collaborate with engineering, product and leadership teams to ensure alignment on technical, product, and business goals and exceed customer needs and expectations.
  • Foster a strong and healthy engineering culture that focuses on innovation and collaboration, mentoring and guiding engineers at all levels.
  • Specific challenges include backend API design and implementation with built in access control, throttling, and observability, architecting for zero downtime, transparent relocation, and application and infrastructure hardening in a distributed systems environment.

Application Instructions

  • Not specified. (Contact GitLab directly for application details)

Skills

Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Ruby
Go

GitLab

Unified DevOps platform for software development

About GitLab

GitLab offers a DevOps platform that simplifies the software development process by providing a single application for collaboration, visibility, and speed. The platform integrates various tools needed for software development, which helps teams manage their projects more efficiently without juggling multiple tools. This allows companies to concentrate on enhancing their products instead of spending too much time on builds. GitLab serves a wide range of clients, including large corporations from different industries, demonstrating its versatility. The company operates on a subscription-based model, where clients pay for access to the platform, which includes features for continuous integration and deployment. GitLab also provides free trials and regularly updates its platform to deliver ongoing value to its users. By customizing its offerings and partnering with other technology providers, GitLab aims to enhance its ecosystem and drive revenue.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$421.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Consulting, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Spending Company Money
Equity Compensation
Life Insurance
Financial Wellness
Paid Time Off
Growth and Development Benefit
GitLab Contribute
Business Travel Accident Policy
Immigration
Employee Assistance Program
Incentives
All-Remote
Part-time contracts
Meal Train
Fertility & Family Planning
Parental Leave

Risks

AI-powered coding assistants like Claude pose a competitive threat to GitLab's platform.
Potential sale to Datadog may lead to strategic shifts misaligned with customer expectations.
Integration of Oxeye may distract from GitLab's core DevOps offerings.

Differentiation

GitLab offers a unified DevOps platform, reducing complexity in software development.
The platform integrates tools for collaboration, visibility, and speed, enhancing development processes.
GitLab's open-source model fosters continuous innovation with a large developer community.

Upsides

Acquiring Oxeye enhances GitLab's cloud security, appealing to security-conscious enterprises.
Partnership with Ooredoo Kuwait expands GitLab's influence in the telecommunications sector.
Potential sale to Datadog could create strategic synergies and expand market reach.

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