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About the role
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and drive the next generation of GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. Fulfillment ensures that customers receive the right product access and can manage seats, usage, and spend across GitLab.com, Self-Managed, Dedicated, and other deployment models. Its core areas include entitlements, licensing and provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. The existing platform has served GitLab for approximately a decade and now faces significant challenges in scale, maintainability, and architectural complexity. This role will help us understand where we are today and define how Fulfillment should work over the next ten years. This is a senior player-coach role. You will set architectural direction across the Fulfillment portfolio, make critical technical decisions, and work directly with teams to execute the resulting modernization strategy. You will influence across organizational boundaries while remaining hands-on in design, implementation, technical problem-solving, and mentorship.
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What you’ll do
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 its most important risks across scale, reliability, performance, data correctness, operability, and maintainability. Drive architectural decisions across entitlements, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management. Establish clear service boundaries, data ownership, contracts, and integration patterns across Fulfillment, Monetization, billing, Salesforce, and product services. Lead an incremental modernization program that improves the existing platform while continuing to deliver customer and business value. Partner with Engineering Managers, , and cross-functional stakeholders to turn architectural direction into executable roadmaps and shipped outcomes. Be hands-on with the hardest problems, including prototypes, critical implementations, migrations, performance improvements, reliability work, and incident learning. Champion practical artificial intelligence (AI) adoption across Fulfillment, including coding and AI-assisted engineering workflows, and help teams apply these tools responsibly and effectively. Mentor and coach Senior and Staff Engineers and raise the quality of technical decision-making across the organization.