GitLab is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GitLab, focusing on Environment Automation specialization. The role involves keeping user-facing services running smoothly by automating workflows, developing monitoring systems, responding to emergencies, and collaborating with other teams.

Requirements

• Have experience with Infrastructure as a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab
• Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors
• Are comfortable using GoLang or Ruby
• Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges
• Have experience regularly interacting with customers, and a focus on resolving their requests with a sense of urgency

Responsibilities

• Automating every operational task is a core requirement for Environment Automation SRE. This includes package updates, configuration changes across all customer platforms without interruptions, tools for automatic provisioning of customer facing services, etc
• Develop a good (early) warning system and system that allows for reliable and quick maintenance tasks, such as library upgrades, version migrations and similar
• Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on the customer usage patterns
• Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests
• Implement new, and update existing security measures for the protection of GitLab infrastructure
• Act as Subject Matter Experts within the GitLab Infrastructure team when interacting with internal and external compliance assessors during certification and recertification of regulatory requirements (ex. FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO)
• Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering a large scale operational point of view
• Work in close collaboration with software development teams to shape the future roadmap and establish strong operational readiness across teams

Benefits

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of Colorado/Washington, California/Hawaii/New York/New Jersey. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary