Site Reliability Engineer, Intermediate to Senior Staff — Infrastructure Platforms

Remote•EMEA•NA

Remote

Mid Level

Full Time

💰$126,400 - $314,400

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Requirements

•Experience keeping production systems reliable, combining an operations mindset with real software engineering practice
•Experience building net-new infrastructure tooling and automation, not just configuring existing tools
•Ability to read, debug, and reason about code, mostly in Go or Ruby
•Experience with infrastructure as code, and with Kubernetes and its ecosystem
•Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (GCP or AWS)
•Familiarity with observability practices including metrics, logging, alerting, and SLOs or SLIs
•Comfort participating in on-call and incident response with a structured approach to troubleshooting under pressure
•Strong written communication and ability to operate as a manager-of-one in an async, distributed environment
•Track record of using automation and AI to reduce toil and improve team work
•Alignment with GitLab's values and commitment to working in accordance with them

•Keep user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient
•Build automation and tooling that reduces toil and replaces manual work with repeatable, infrastructure-as-code-driven workflows
•Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes, including deployments, rollouts, and scaling
•Write and maintain infrastructure as code, and ship changes safely through CI/CD and GitOps
•Participate in on-call, triage alerts, follow and improve runbooks, and escalate appropriately
•Contribute to the observability stack, using metrics, logs, and SLOs to detect symptoms early rather than just outages
•Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, turning learnings into changes in automation and process
•Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and reviews so your findings become repeatable practices