Principal Engineer – Monetization Engineering

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer defining GitLab’s next-generation Fulfillment architecture for its DevSecOps platform. Modernizing entitlements, licensing, provisioning, usage, and cost-management systems.

Responsibilities

  • 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 risks across scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, operability, and maintainability
  • Drive architectural decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management
  • Establish service boundaries, data ownership, contracts, and integration patterns across Fulfillment, Monetization, billing, Salesforce, and product services
  • Lead an incremental modernization program 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
  • Work hands-on on prototypes, critical implementations, migrations, performance improvements, reliability work, and incident learning
  • Champion practical AI adoption across Fulfillment, including agentic coding and AI-assisted engineering workflows
  • Mentor and coach Senior and Staff Engineers and raise the quality of technical decision-making

Requirements

  • 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 entitlements, licensing, provisioning, subscription lifecycle, seat management, usage metering, usage billing, or cost controls
  • 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 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 spanning multiple deployment models, such as software as a service, Self-Managed, Dedicated, or disconnected environments
  • Strong product and business judgment, connecting technical investment to customer experience, revenue, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and time to market
  • Excellent written communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders across teams without formal authority

Benefits

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$223,000 - $317,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Distributed SystemsPythonRubyGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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