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Distinguished Engineer, Core DevOps
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is setting and proving the go-forward technical direction for GitLab's core DevOps systems, retiring accumulated risk and migrating mature, high-traffic services without ever breaking the millions who depend on them.
This is for the engineer who loves the hardest kind of system: mature, high-traffic, deeply interconnected, and impossible to break because millions depend on it every day. You get to set direction across GitLab's core CI, CD, Plan, and source systems, write the code that proves a design argument, and grow the principal and staff engineers around you. If you find real joy in retiring old risk safely, converging tangled architecture onto clean paved paths, and bringing AI native practices into systems that cannot afford downtime, this role gives you scale, authority, and evidence for everything you decide.
Needs
- setting technical direction
- systems design at scale
- prototypes with proof
- risk mapping
- safe migration paths
- opinionated design docs
- mentoring principals
- influence without authority
Rewards
- work millions touch
- top technical recognition
- numbers that prove it
- a learning culture
Demands
- contested decisions
- carrying the pager
- fortune 100 stakes
- globally distributed org
Grows
- developing senior engineers
- teaching across engineering
- long-game strategy
- calling the hard ones
Values
- measurable rigour
- quality that lasts
- decade-long thinking
- remote by default
- responsible ai
Drains
- review as gatekeeping
- compliance boundaries
- endless roadmap alignment
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