Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation - Remote

Overview

As a Senior 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) for proactive monitoring.
• Integrating with and operating infrastructure in cloud provider ecosystems.
• Championing and implementing cloud security best practices across automated infrastructure.

Requirements

• Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot production workloads across multiple tenants.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Skilled at diagnosing deployment failures in Kubernetes.
• Ability to read and debug code in Go and/or Ruby.
• Experience supporting infrastructure for many customers simultaneously.
• On-call experience and ability to lead technical discussions.
• Proven ability to work across teams to solve technical problems.
• Comfortable using GitLab for infrastructure automation.

Benefits

• Work in a high-performance culture with continuous knowledge exchange.
• Collaborate with industry leaders to solve complex problems.
• Opportunity to co-create the future of software development.
• Embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier.
• Be part of a mission-driven organization.