Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Runway

Position Overview

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

GitLab is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Runway team. This team is focused on building a next-generation platform for rapid deployment of backend services, enabling self-service development across the GitLab engineering ecosystem. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure on GCP and AWS, contributing to Kubernetes tooling, and improving monitoring and alerting systems. The team operates in a fully remote, asynchronous environment across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles.
• Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with both GCP and AWS cloud platforms.
• Kubernetes: Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Programming Skills: Solid programming skills in Golang and scripting languages.
• Logging: Experience designing and implementing logging solutions.
• Automation: Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure operations.
• On-Call: Experience with on-call rotations and incident management.
• Troubleshooting: Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team.
• Environment: Comfortable in a fully remote, heavily asynchronous environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure on both GCP and AWS.
• Help create and maintain Kubernetes tooling, logging, secrets management, and utilities.
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Participate in on-call rotation to address critical issues.
• Automate manual processes to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Lead incident response, including postmortem analysis.
• Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Observability Tools: Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Secrets Management: Experience with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao).
• Service Mesh: Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Distributed Systems: Background in distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Security: Security best practices in cloud-native environments.
• GitLab CI/CD: Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and workflows.

Company Information

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. We run our operations on our product and stay aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.