Principal Software Engineer

An overview of this role

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

What you’ll do  

• 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. 

What you’ll bring 

• 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 exceptional business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate team performance.
• Adept at balancing high-level business needs with deep technical decisions.
• Good communication and ability to work with stakeholders independently

About the team

Group Tenant Scale (GTS) is building GitLab’s next generation, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, resilient SaaS platform, at both the infrastructure and application layers, through the implementation of Cells and  Organizations, respectively, and the extension of Geo to support Organization replication and cross-platform migrations. We aim to provide our customers a rock solid experience with our multi-tenant platform in terms of availability, resilience, scalability, and geolocation, and the mobility to and from our single-tenant offerings as their needs change and evolve, so that their time with us is a journey that helps them achieve their own goals and objectives.

The original team’s projects were, in essence, promoted to dedicated teams, with the addition of Geo to help us build the future of GitLab’s multi-tenant offering.

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget 
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.