Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Platforms

Git Lab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered Dev Sec Ops  Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

Git Lab is seeking a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for our most critical infrastructure platforms. This role operates at organizational scale, owning architecture, solving complex systems problems, and driving initiatives that shape how Git Lab grows, performs, and remains reliable.

As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority and force multiplier, leading architectural decisions across distributed and cloud-native systems to translate business strategy into durable technical direction. Spanning multiple teams and domains, you will bring clarity to ambiguity, raise engineering standards, and mentor senior talent while remaining accountable for real production outcomes. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role for leaders who drive success through influence and shape the foundational platforms that the entire organization depends on.

This track leads high‑impact platform initiatives for our multi‑tenant SaaS infrastructure. You will lead the technical roadmap across key areas of Production Engineering to ensure our global operations remain resilient and modern.

• Core Focus:
  Lead strategy and execution of our multi‑tenant SaaS infrastructure in collaboration with other Platform teams.
• Collaboration:
  
  Partner with Database Operations and Cells teams to align production engineering efforts with the overall platform strategy.

This track builds Git Lab’s next generation, multi‑tenant, horizontally scalable, and resilient SaaS platform. You will architect the foundations that enable other engineering teams to build upon this platform and drive convergence among Git Lab’s various platforms.

• Core Focus:
  Lead the design and evolution of projects that enable our distributed, multi‑tenant SaaS transformation, including Cells, Organizations, and Org Mover.
• Distributed Architecture:
  Architect for zero downtime, transparent relocation, and application hardening in a massive distributed environment.
• Strategic Decisions:
  Guide architecture decisions with availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, and cost in mind.

The Git Lab Delivery track focuses on enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and speed of Git Lab’s end‑to‑end software delivery across all platforms and offerings.

• Core Focus:
  Lead the platform strategy spanning Developer Experience, CI infrastructure, packaging, and release delivery across SaaS, Self‑Managed, and Dedicated.
• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Treat Git Lab engineers as customers, building self‑service tooling, testing infrastructure, and paved paths that increase velocity while maintaining quality.
• Delivery at Scale:
  Architect reliable, automated pipelines that streamline how Git Lab is packaged, released, and deployed across all platforms and offerings.

• Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms that support Git Lab at global scale.
• Lead the design and evolution of large platforms and distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost‑efficient.
• Serve as the technical authority on complex initiatives, guiding decisions that impact multiple teams and product areas.
• Translate business and product strategy into long‑term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, and leadership by clearly communicating tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Establish technical standards and architectural patterns that raise quality and consistency across the…