Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Distinguished Engineer to lead technical direction for Core DevOps, the CI, CD, planning and source control services most GitLab users touch daily. The role is the technical counterpart to the VP of Engineering and covers GitLab.com, Dedicated and self-managed deployments.
What you will do
- Set and refine the technical direction for CI, CD, Plan and source code experiences
- Define measurable quality targets such as availability, p95 and p99 latency, pipeline success rate and defect escape rate
- Track systemic technical risk and drive a prioritized plan to retire it
- Lead the hardest design decisions hands on, with code, prototypes and proofs of concept
- Design migration paths for large long-lived systems, with incremental cutover and rollback
- Write design documents, review critical designs, grow Principal and Staff Engineers and join incident on-call
What they ask for
- Recognized expertise across multiple technology domains at the most senior technical level
- Ability to design and lead changes to large, high-traffic, long-lived production systems
- Hands-on coding ability to back design arguments with prototypes
- Experience setting technical direction across several teams and working with Product on roadmaps
- Strong technical writing for design documents and architecture narratives
- Willingness to take on-call and to interview candidates after training
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
