Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

GitLab

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Work type
Remote
Location
CanadaUnited Kingdom
Salary
$223,200–$380,400 / yr
Posted
34 days ago
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $144,375–$215,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $302k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About GitLab

GitLab is an all-remote software company that develops an AI-powered DevSecOps platform combining source code management, CI/CD, security scanning, and project planning in a single application.

GitLab currently has 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $152,800–$238,000 across 49 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated joins the team responsible for GitLab Dedicated, a fully managed single-tenant SaaS offering. In this leadership role, you will set the technical direction for scaling a fleet of isolated, customer-specific environments while ensuring reliability, security, and compliance. You will lead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, and self-service tooling. Your daily work involves driving modular architecture aligned with a cell-based strategy, identifying systemic scalability risks, and establishing reusable automation patterns to reduce operational toil. You must possess deep expertise in Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering, utilizing skills in cloud infrastructure, observability, and infrastructure as code. Required technical proficiencies include software engineering fundamentals in languages such as Go, Ruby, or Python.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Set the technical direction and architecture strategy for scaling GitLab Dedicated's single-tenant environments.
  • Lead platform transformations for resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, and self-service tooling.
  • Drive modular architecture designs that align with the company's broader Cells strategy.
  • Strengthen service ownership by helping engineering teams build and operate production systems.
  • Identify and mitigate systemic reliability and scalability risks using production signals and incident patterns.
  • Establish reusable platform patterns and automation to reduce operational toil.
  • Lead complex technical decisions balancing reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
  • Mentor senior engineers and advance engineering excellence through architectural leadership.

What we're looking for

  • Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering with experience 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 in languages such as Go, Ruby, Python, or similar.
  • Expertise in distributed systems and systems design with focus on reliability, failure isolation, and scalability.
  • Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams to drive complex initiatives through influence.
  • Experience leading significant platform or infrastructure transformations, including modernization and modularization.
  • Experience leading changes to improve how engineering teams own and operate production systems at scale.
  • Exceptional technical communication skills to build alignment, mentor senior engineers, and guide architectural decisions.

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