# Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8623592002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-principal-site-reliability-engineer-platform-engineering-dedicated/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with deep expertise in Site Reliability, Backend, or Platform Engineering to help shape the next phase of GitLab Dedicated , our fully managed single-tenant SaaS offering. This highly influential technical leadership role will set direction for how we scale a growing fleet of isolated, customer-specific environments while maintaining the reliability, security, and compliance our customers depend on.

## What they're looking for

- Set technical direction for GitLab Dedicated, shaping architecture and platform strategy as we scale a growing fleet of isolated, single-tenant environments
- Lead platform transformations across resilience, failover, tenant orchestration, change management, self-service tooling, and platform integrations
- Drive scalable, modular architecture that aligns Dedicated with GitLab’s broader Cells strategy while preserving its security, isolation, and compliance requirements
- Strengthen service ownership and operational maturity, helping engineering teams build, operate, and improve the production systems they own
- Identify and address systemic reliability and scalability risks using production signals, incident patterns, and architectural insight
- Establish reusable platform patterns and automation that reduce operational toil and allow Dedicated to scale efficiently

Tags: Platforms Engineering