Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform
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- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
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Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
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Software Development, DevSecOps, Open SourceIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Salary: Not specified
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at GitLab are responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems. SREs combine operational expertise with software engineering skills, applying sound principles and automation to maintain system stability. This role focuses on building, maintaining, planning, responding to incidents, enhancing security, and collaborating with other teams. GitLab is an open-core software company developing an AI-powered DevSecOps platform used by over 100,000 organizations, with a mission to enable everyone to contribute to software development.
Requirements
- Experience with Infrastructure as a Code technologies and libraries powering GitLab.
- Ability to reason about large systems, including how they work and can be operated at scale, considering edge cases and failure modes.
- Comfort working with GoLang or Ruby.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Build: Automate operational tasks, such as package updates, configuration changes, and provisioning of customer-facing services.
- Maintain: Develop monitoring and alerting systems for reliable and quick maintenance tasks (e.g., library upgrades, version migrations).
- Plan: Create monitoring systems to predict capacity needs based on customer usage patterns, plan for service rollouts, and advise customers on resource optimization.
- Respond: Handle user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests.
- Enhance: Implement and update security measures to protect GitLab infrastructure.
- Partner: Serve as Subject Matter Experts during compliance assessments (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO).
- Collaborate: Work with engineering stakeholders to resolve architectural bottlenecks, shape the roadmap, and establish operational readiness.
Company Information
GitLab is an open-core software company developing the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform. They aim to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. They operate their operations on their product and stay aligned with their values. Learn more at https://about.gitlab.com/.
Skills
Infrastructure as Code
GoLang
Ruby
System Automation
Monitoring and Alerting
Security Enhancement
Operational Excellence
Collaboration and Communication
GitLab
Unified DevOps platform for software development
About GitLab
GitLab offers a DevOps platform that simplifies the software development process by providing a single application for collaboration, visibility, and speed. The platform integrates various tools needed for software development, which helps teams manage their projects more efficiently without juggling multiple tools. This allows companies to concentrate on enhancing their products instead of spending too much time on builds. GitLab serves a wide range of clients, including large corporations from different industries, demonstrating its versatility. The company operates on a subscription-based model, where clients pay for access to the platform, which includes features for continuous integration and deployment. GitLab also provides free trials and regularly updates its platform to deliver ongoing value to its users. By customizing its offerings and partnering with other technology providers, GitLab aims to enhance its ecosystem and drive revenue.
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$421.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Consulting, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees