Remote Principal Engineer: Govern Job in UK GitLab

Who you are

• Significant professional experience as a Principal or Staff Engineer across multiple development teams
• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails Vue.js GraphQL and Postgres
• Expert knowledge and experience in CI/CD using DevSecOps best practices
• Experience in scaling a mission-critical SaaS product
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex problems and solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile intensely iterative software development process
• Experience owning a project from concept to production including proposal discussion and execution

Desirables

• Hands-on management
• Technical leadership
• Strong interest in security and compliance

What the job involves

• Contribute to the overall direction of the Govern stage by collaborating and making proposals across several teams on their engineering work and helping their team members make informed decisions in alignment with strategic plans
• Teach mentor grow and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams. Advise on resourcing requirements and provide feedback on promotions into technical leadership roles
• Plan improvements and features with a 6 month view and ensure that OKR-level goals are aligned across the sub-department
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope complexity and ambiguity while looking for innovation opportunities between several teams and demonstrating a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope
• Interface with Engineering Managers and Senior Management and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives. Provide a point of escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges
• Propose initial technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your sub-department
• Identify slow and inefficient code across multiple products