Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead fullstack engineering for GitLab’s purchase experience, building Ruby on Rails and Vue.js features across checkout, subscriptions, promotions, billing, and CRM integrations. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, uphold quality and rollout standards, reduce architectural risk, participate in incident response, and partner with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to deliver reliable, secure, revenue-critical purchasing workflows.

Leads GitLab’s Database Excellence organization and sets the long-term direction for PostgreSQL and other application datastores. Owns database capacity, availability, reliability, sustainability, infrastructure costs, and platform strategy. Manages engineering leaders, develops staff engineers, oversees hiring and organizational design, sets objectives, manages budgets, guides cross-functional technical decisions, and serves as an escalation point for incidents. The role also advances self-managed upgrades, automation, observability, and database services across globally distributed teams.

Build and maintain fullstack features for GitLab’s post-purchase subscription experience, including renewals, billing accounts, auto-renewal, overages, and subscription visibility. Work across Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, integrate billing and customer systems, collaborate with Product and Design, write tested and maintainable code, support safe rollouts, reduce technical debt, participate in code reviews, and respond to incidents affecting revenue and customer access.

Build and maintain GitLab’s Rust-based Knowledge Graph backend, including query engines, SDLC and code indexing pipelines, APIs, and MCP endpoints. Integrate with Rails, ClickHouse, NATS JetStream, and AI platforms. Improve reliability through testing, observability, runbooks, alerting, and on-call participation. Collaborate asynchronously across product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams while contributing to system design, code reviews, and AI-assisted development.

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git data storage tier. Lead complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, and architecture work while balancing long-term technical investments with roadmap delivery. Support hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development. Partner cross-functionally on technical decisions, maintainability, and platform viability, using strong written communication and asynchronous collaboration across time zones.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for GitLab Dedicated, including platform orchestration, resilience, incident response, control-plane APIs, public-sector compliance, and enterprise migrations. Defines strategy and roadmap, scales distributed engineering teams, improves reliability and infrastructure efficiency, delivers AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP capabilities, and partners with executive, product, security, and support teams to meet enterprise customer commitments.

Principal Engineer responsible for defining the long-term architecture and modernization strategy for GitLab’s Fulfillment platform. The role covers entitlements, licensing, provisioning, seat management, usage visibility, and cost management across deployment models. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, improving scalability and reliability, leading incremental modernization, solving complex engineering problems, adopting AI-assisted development, partnering across teams, and mentoring senior engineers.

Designs, operates, and improves Kubernetes platforms across cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing cluster lifecycles, extending ArgoCD GitOps workflows, developing Terraform infrastructure modules, improving reliability and observability, implementing security controls, integrating CI/CD pipelines, and enabling application teams through documentation and self-service tooling.

Own the technical strategy for GitLab’s strategic technology partnerships, translating partner roadmaps into integrations, architecture, prototypes, and product opportunities. Evaluate AI models and agents, facilitate architecture workshops, develop technical business cases, resolve complex cloud and integration issues, and influence product roadmaps. Coordinate Engineering, Product, R&D, Finance, FinOps, Sales, Marketing, and partner teams to deliver joint initiatives. The role is remote and requires quarterly travel with EMEA time-zone overlap.

Deliver GitLab professional services for public sector customers, including installations, upgrades, migrations, training, and advisory engagements. Plan and execute deployments across varied architectures using infrastructure and configuration as code. Lead customer projects end to end, provide technical guidance, manage multiple engagements, mentor peers, and collaborate with project, product, and engineering teams to resolve issues and improve delivery practices.