Principal Engineer, Monetization & Fulfillment Architecture

GitLab; Canada; Remote; CAD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the next generation of its Fulfillment platform across multiple deployments, including GitLab.com, Self-Managed, and Dedicated environments. You will define architectural direction, steer critical technical decisions, and lead modernization while staying hands-on with design, implementation, and mentorship.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to convert strategy into executable roadmaps, drive reliability, and champion safe

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Staff or Principal level leadership.
• Direct experience building, operating, or modernizing Fulfillment systems (entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage, cost controls).
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams and turning architecture into reliable systems.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, scalability, availability, performance, observability, data integrity, and failure-mode analysis.

Aufgaben

• Define long-term architecture and technical strategy for Fulfillment.
• Assess risks across scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, operability, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, usage, and cost management.
• Establish service boundaries, data ownership, contracts, and integration patterns across Fulfillment and related services.
• Lead modernization program while delivering ongoing value to customers and business.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Management, and stakeholders to turn direction into roadmaps.
• Be hands-on with prototypes, critical implementations, migrations, performance improvements, and incident learning.
• Champion AI adoption across Fulfillment and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers to raise technical decision quality across the organization.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Scalability

Availability

Performance

Observability

Data integrity

Failure-mode analysis

Ruby

Go

Python

AI in software engineering

Tools

Ruby

Go

Python

Jobbeschreibung

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to shape the next generation of its Fulfillment platform across multiple deployments, including GitLab.com, Self-Managed, and Dedicated environments. You will define architectural direction, steer critical technical decisions, and lead modernization while staying hands-on with design, implementation, and mentorship.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to convert strategy into executable roadmaps, drive reliability, and champion safe