GitLab
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Runway
Job Summary
The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable infrastructure across GCP and AWS, with a focus on Kubernetes, logging, monitoring, and automation. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead incident response, and participate in capacity planning and cost optimization. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles, strong cloud and Kubernetes skills, and proficiency in programming and automation. The position emphasizes teamwork, asynchronous communication, and adherence to GitLab's core values, supporting a fully remote, diverse work environment.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
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 human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
About the Role
The GitLab Runway team is working on our next-generation platform to rapidly deploy backend services that automatically take advantage of GitLab infrastructure, security, observability, and data access. It’s a platform engineering project in the truest sense. We’re enabling self-service development across the entire GitLab engineering ecosystem to quickly build and deploy services to complement the GitLab product offerings.
We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us build, maintain, and optimize our infrastructure. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant.
Key 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
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles
- Strong experience with both GCP and AWS cloud platforms
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Solid programming skills in Golang and scripting languages
- Experience designing and implementing logging solutions
- Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure operations
- Experience with on-call rotations and incident management
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team
- Comfortable in a fully remote, heavily asynchronous environment across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Background in distributed systems and microservice architectures
- Security best practices in cloud-native environments
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and workflows
Mandatory non-technical skills, experience and characteristics
- Willingness and ability to live and promote Gitlab's unique CREDIT Values in one's day to day work and interactions with teammates.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Cool, collected and composed under pressure
- Comfortable and productive working asynchronously across timezones and cultures, at the speed and scale of business.
- Enable others to excel
- Be a Leader of One
- Act Like an Owner with Gitlab's resources.
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and development budget
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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