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The role
GitLab is looking for a principal engineer to set the architecture for its Fulfillment platform, which covers entitlements, licensing, seat management and usage billing. This hands-on player-coach role is remote from Canada or the United States.
What you will do
- Define the long-term architecture for the Fulfillment portfolio
- Make critical technical decisions and guide modernisation
- Work hands-on with teams on design and implementation
- Mentor engineers across organisational boundaries
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software engineering, including Staff or Principal level
- Direct experience with fulfillment systems such as licensing, provisioning, subscriptions or usage billing
- Deep experience with distributed systems, scalability and observability
- Practical use of AI-assisted or agentic coding
- Experience with systems spanning SaaS, self-managed or dedicated deployments
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.
