GitLab
Distinguished Engineer, Core DevOps
$250K–$349K
Remote, Canada +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United Kingdom
Remote, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
About the job
Leads technical direction and hands-on architectural work across GitLab’s Core DevOps services, improving quality, reliability, and architecture while integrating AI-driven engineering goals.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and measurable quality goals for CI, CD, Plan, and source code experiences; identify and retire systemic technical risk.
- Lead complex technical decisions, prototypes, design reviews, and safe migrations across long-lived production systems.
- Adopt AI capabilities into Core DevOps, mentor senior engineers, and partner across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, and SRE.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise in AI and ML systems, including large language models, agentic frameworks, and autonomous workflow design at production scale.
- Strong background in scalable, multi-tenant distributed systems, including service decomposition, fault tolerance, observability, and operational resilience.
- Experience designing human-in-the-loop controls, safety guardrails, and responsible AI practices for production systems.
Pay
$250,000 — $349,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI, ML, large language models, agentic frameworks, CI, CD
AI focus
Integrates AI and agentic engineering goals into Core DevOps; adopts AI platform capabilities and applies production-scale AI/ML expertise, evaluation, human-in-the-loop controls, and safety guardrails.
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