Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation - Remote

Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GitLab, you’ll help keep all user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient. Our SREs combine a pragmatic operations mindset with strong software engineering practices to drive automation, reduce toil, and improve resilience across our platform.

In Short

• Designing infrastructure automation that provisions and operates GitLab environments using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Creating and maintaining deployment packages for GitLab, such as Helm Charts and omnibus-gitlab.
• Building and operating Dedicated GitLab instances integrated with cloud-native services (e.g., GCP, AWS).
• Developing tools to orchestrate infrastructure-as-code workflows across multiple tenants.
• Deploying and managing microservices on Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Enhancing GitLab’s observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, ELK) to support proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Integrating with and operating infrastructure in cloud provider ecosystems (e.g., IAM, networking, storage).
• Championing and implementing cloud security best practices across automated infrastructure.

Requirements

• Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot production workloads across multiple tenants or environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including workspace strategies and state management.
• Skilled at diagnosing deployment failures and debugging scheduling issues in live environments.
• Ability to read and debug code in Go and/or Ruby.
• Experience supporting infrastructure for many customers or environments simultaneously.
• Able to reason through complex systems and operational challenges.
• Proven ability to work across teams and with internal or external customers.
• Comfortable using GitLab as a daily tool for infrastructure automation.

Benefits

• Work in a high-performance culture that values continuous knowledge exchange.
• Opportunity to collaborate with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
• Flexible work environment with remote options.
• Access to resources for professional development and career advancement.
• Inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and equal opportunity.