GitLab
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated
$223K–$380K
Remote, Canada +3 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United Kingdom
Remote, United States
United Kingdom
About the job
Sets technical direction and leads platform transformation for GitLab Dedicated, scaling reliable, secure, isolated single-tenant production environments.
What you'll do
- Shape architecture and lead transformations in resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, self-service tooling, and platform integrations.
- Identify systemic reliability and scalability risks, and establish reusable patterns and automation to reduce operational toil.
- Guide cross-team technical decisions, strengthen service ownership, and mentor senior engineers.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in Site Reliability, Platform, Infrastructure, or Backend Engineering, with experience designing and 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 and distributed systems and systems-design expertise.
- Track record of technical leadership across multiple teams and leading significant platform or infrastructure transformations.
Pay
$223,200 — $380,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Ruby, Python
AI focus
GitLab expects all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows as a productivity multiplier.
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