Principal Engineer, Monetization Engineering

Gitlab; United States; Remote; USD 223.000 - 317.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the next generation of its Fulfillment platform. You will set the architectural direction, tackle scale and maintainability challenges, and mentor engineers while delivering value across entitlements, licensing, and cost management.

You will work hands-on in design and implementation, partner with cross-functional teams, and champion practical AI adoption in engineering workflows to improve productivity and outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience at staff/principal level.
• Direct experience building or modernizing Fulfillment-like systems.
• Proven track record turning architecture into reliable, operated systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, scalability, and observability.
• Experience shaping multi-team technical direction.
• Strong written communication to influence senior stakeholders.

Aufgaben

• Define long-term architecture and strategy for Fulfillment.
• Assess risks in scale, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, and cost management.
• Establish clear service boundaries and integration patterns.
• Lead modernization while delivering customer value.
• Collaborate with managers and product teams to create executable roadmaps.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise decision quality.
• Champion AI adoption in engineering workflows.

Kenntnisse

Staff/Principal leadership

Distributed systems

Architecture direction

AI in software engineering

Polyglot development

Stakeholder influence

Performance & reliability

Product judgment

Jobbeschreibung

the company is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. the company enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust the company to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. the company is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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About the role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and drive the next generation of the company's Fulfillment platform.

Fulfillment ensures that customers receive the right product access and can manage seats, usage, and spend across the company.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, and other deployment models. Its core areas include entitlements, licensing and provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management.

The existing platform has served the company for approximately a decade and now faces significant challenges in scale, maintainability, and architectural complexity. This role will help us understand where we are today and define how Fulfillment should work over the next ten years.

This is a senior player-coach role. You will set architectural direction across the Fulfillment portfolio, make critical technical decisions, and work directly with teams to execute the resulting modernization strategy. You will influence across organizational boundaries while remaining hands-on in design, implementation, technical problem-solving, and mentorship.

What you’ll do

• Define and communicate the long-term architecture and technical strategy for Fulfillment, including target state, principles, priorities, and migration sequencing.
• Assess the current platform and address its most important risks across scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, operability, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management.
• Establish clear service boundaries, data ownership, contracts, and integration patterns across Fulfillment, Monetization, billing, Salesforce, and product services.
• Lead an incremental modernization program that improves the existing platform while continuing to deliver customer and business value.
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Management, and cross-functional stakeholders to turn architectural direction into executable roadmaps and shipped outcomes.
• Be hands-on with the hardest problems, including prototypes, critical implementations, migrations, performance improvements, reliability work, and incident learning.
• Champion practical artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across Fulfillment, including agentic coding and AI-assisted engineering workflows, and help teams apply these tools responsibly and effectively.
• Mentor and coach Senior and Staff Engineers and raise the quality of technical decision-making across the organization.

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Direct experience building, operating, or modernizing Fulfillment systems, including areas such as entitlements, licensing, provisioning, subscription lifecycle, seat management, usage metering, usage billing, or cost controls.
• A track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams and turning architecture into reliable, operated systems.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, scalability, availability, performance, observability, data integrity, and failure-mode analysis.
• Comfort working in one or more of Ruby, Go, and Python, with the ability to navigate both Backend and Frontend in a polyglot system.
• Practical experience using artificial intelligence in software engineering, including agentic coding or AI-assisted development workflows.
• Demonstrated success modernizing mature or degraded platforms without relying on a risky "big bang" rewrite.
• Experience designing systems that span multiple deployment models, such as software as a service, Self-Managed, Dedicated, or disconnected environments.
• Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical investment to customer experience, revenue, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and time to market.
• Excellent written communication and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across teams without formal authority.

*The base salary range for this role's listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US.Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data,and geographic location.The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.*

United States Salary Range

$223,000-$317,000 USD

How the company Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being