Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Requirements

• Experience with Infrastructure as a Code technologies and libraries powering GitLab.
• Terraform experience is a must.
• Ability to reason about large systems – how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Comfortable using GoLang or other programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Build: Automating every operational task. E.g., package updates, configuration changes across all customer platforms without interruptions, tools for automatic provisioning of customer-facing services, etc.
• Maintain: Develop a good (early) warning system and system that allows for reliable and quick maintenance tasks, such as library upgrades, version migrations, and similar.
• Plan: Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on customer usage patterns. Plan for new service rollouts, expansion of existing services, and preparing advice for customers to optimize their resource consumption.
• Respond: Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests.
• Enhance: Implement new, and update existing security measures for the protection of GitLab infrastructure.
• Partner: 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).
• Collaborate: 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.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Please refer to GitLab's Careers page for application details.)