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GitLab

Unified DevOps platform for CI/CD

Principal Engineer - Monetization Engineering

Full-Time
$223k - $317k
Expert
Remote in USA+1 moreMore locations: Remote in Canada
RemoteAll roles are remote. The listed salary range applies to US residents only.
Software EngineeringBackend Engineering

About the job

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 areas such as entitlements, licensing, provisioning, subscription lifecycle, seat management, usage metering, usage billing, or cost controls.
  • A 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 the 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 that span multiple deployment models, such as software as a service, Self-Managed, Dedicated, or disconnected environments.
  • Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect technical investment to customer experience, revenue, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and time to market.
  • Excellent written communication and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across teams without formal authority.
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 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, Product Management, 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 adoption across Fulfillment, including agentic 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.

About the company

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GitLab

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GitLab provides a unified DevOps platform that brings together the tools needed for software development, including code hosting, collaboration, CI/CD, issue tracking, and security, all in one application. It works by offering a single subscription-based platform where teams can plan, write, test, review, and deploy code through automated pipelines, reducing the need to manage separate tools. This differs from many competitors that require using a collection of separate products; GitLab consolidates these capabilities into one integrated solution, helping teams work more efficiently. The company's goal is to help organizations speed up software delivery and improve collaboration by simplifying the DevOps process and continuously updating the platform with new features and improvements.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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What believers are saying

  • September 2026 revenue hit $286.3 million, up 21%, with record gross bookings.
  • Net ARR grew 42% and first orders doubled in GitLab's latest quarter.
  • GitLab Flex committed over $20 million in six weeks, validating hybrid consumption pricing.

What critics are saying

  • June 2026 layoffs cut 14% and exited 22 countries, disrupting execution.
  • Microsoft GitHub and Atlassian own adjacent developer workflows, pressuring GitLab's platform consolidation.
  • If Duo monetization stalls, AI spending becomes a cost center before FY2027 growth slows.

What makes GitLab unique

  • GitLab 19.4 unifies agentic automation across CI, security, merge requests, and projects.
  • GitLab Duo Agent Platform ships with governed, local, traceable AI inside enterprise workflows.
  • GitLab's single-application DevSecOps stack keeps code, security, and compliance context together.

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Benefits

  • Spending Company Money
  • Equity Compensation
  • Life Insurance
  • Financial Wellness
  • Paid Time Off
  • Growth and Development Benefit
  • GitLab Contribute
  • Business Travel Accident Policy
  • Immigration
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Incentives
  • All-Remote

Growth & Insights and Company News

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 27th, 2026
Momentum stocks to watch: GitLab, Guidewire and Casella surge up to 26% in a month

Three stocks have outpaced the broader market over the past month, helped by new products and positive media coverage. A recent stock-picking article says momentum does not always predict long-term success, but it names three it believes deserve the hype. GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB) rose 22.4%. Its two-year annual revenue growth was 25.9%, and its gross margin is 85.9%. The shares trade at $56.54, or 7.8x forward price-to-sales. Guidewire Software (NYSE:GWRE) gained 26.4%. Its billings grew 23.9% on average over the last year, and its operating margin is 10.2%. At $183.46 per share, it trades at 9.2x forward price-to-sales. Casella Waste Systems (NASDAQ:CWST) climbed 17.9%. Its revenue grew 16.9% annually over two years, and earnings per share rose 38.3% annually. It trades at $96.19 per share, or 82.6x forward earnings.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 14th, 2026
GitLab is a software stock to watch, while Elastic and Wix underwhelm

SaaS stocks have gained 56.3% over the past six months, outpacing the S&P 500's 12% rise. Still, StockStory says AI is eating into the profits of software firms with low switching costs, so only the strongest will last. It favours GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB), valued at $8.66 billion. Revenue grew 25.9% a year over two years, annual recurring revenue rose 23.3% in the last year, and gross margin is 85.9%. The stock trades at $50.42, or 7.8x forward price-to-sales. It is wary of two others. Elastic (NYSE:ESTC), worth $9.90 billion, posted billings growth of 14% and flat operating margin. Wix (NASDAQ:WIX), worth $3.00 billion, saw billings growth of 13.9% and a 17.5 percentage point drop in operating margin.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 6th, 2026
GitLab unveils governed software factory with AI agent orchestration and security controls

GitLab has announced new capabilities for what it calls a "governed software factory", aimed at helping organisations deploy AI-generated software whilst managing risk and cost. The platform now includes goal-driven workflows that automate progression across the software development lifecycle, reducing handoffs between stages. Key additions include GitLab Artifact Central, which centralises containers and packages alongside source code, and GitLab Dependency Firewall, which blocks malicious or non-compliant packages before they enter builds. GitLab Secrets Manager, now generally available, secures credentials in one location. The platform will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and 5.1 models for security workflows. New Impact Analytics tools show AI investment costs and outcomes by team and model. GitLab reports active users of agentic software development grew 200% year-over-year over the past three months, with over 70 million developers using the platform.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 30th, 2026
GitLab Q2 revenue beats estimates by 4.8%, shares up 3.3% on $286M quarterly revenue

GitLab reported Q2 revenues of $286.3 million, up 21.3% year-on-year and exceeding analyst expectations by 4.8%. The company delivered strong billings results and EPS guidance for the next quarter. Chief executive officer Bill Staples highlighted record gross bookings and net annual recurring revenue growth exceeding 40% year-on-year. He noted that as AI drives more software creation, GitLab's platform provides increasingly valuable context, security, governance, and control for human and AI agent collaboration. The DevSecOps platform provider's shares rose 3.3% following the earnings announcement. The quarter was part of a strong performance across the software development sector, where 12 tracked companies collectively beat revenue estimates by 3.2%. GitLab operates with an all-remote workforce and provides tools helping development, operations, and security teams collaborate to build and deploy software.

The Economic Times
Sep 29th, 2026
Ashton Kutcher backed GitLab in $1.5M seed round before $11B IPO, but payout remains undisclosed

GitLab went public in October 2021 at $77 per share, valuing the company at roughly $11 billion. Sound Ventures, the investment firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, backed GitLab six years earlier during its $1.5 million seed round in July 2015. Khosla Ventures led that early financing, with Joe Montana's Liquid 2 Ventures also participating. At the time, GitLab had fewer than 10 team members and was still developing its software development collaboration tools. GitLab's shares closed at $103.89 on their first trading day, giving the company a market value of $14.9 billion, according to Reuters. However, neither GitLab nor Sound Ventures disclosed the size of the firm's investment or when shares were sold, making it impossible to calculate Kutcher's actual return.