GitLab
Principal Engineer, Monetization Engineering
$223K–$317K
Remote, Canada +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level.
About the job
Defines and drives the long-term architecture and incremental modernization of GitLab’s Fulfillment platform, while remaining hands-on and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Set Fulfillment’s architecture and technical strategy, including priorities and migration sequencing.
- Lead platform modernization and address risks in scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, and maintainability.
- Partner across teams, solve critical technical problems, promote responsible AI adoption, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership experience.
- Direct experience building, operating, or modernizing Fulfillment systems, such as entitlements, licensing, provisioning, subscription lifecycle, seat management, usage metering, usage billing, or cost controls.
- Deep experience with distributed systems and a track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams.
- Comfort with one or more of Ruby, Go, and Python; practical experience using AI in software engineering.
Pay
$223,000 — $317,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Ruby, Go, Python, Salesforce
AI focus
Champion responsible and effective AI adoption across Fulfillment, including agentic coding and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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