Site Reliability Engineer, Intermediate to Senior Staff — Infrastructure Platforms @GitLab

Overview

GitLab is an orchestration platform for DevSecOps, focusing on improving developer productivity and operational efficiency. The Site Reliability Engineer role involves maintaining user-facing services and production systems at scale, combining software engineering with operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain user-facing services and production systems for reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Build automation and tooling to reduce manual work through infrastructure-as-code-driven workflows.
• Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes.
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code, shipping changes safely through CI/CD and GitOps.
• Participate in on-call, manage alerts, and improve runbooks.
• Contribute to the observability stack to detect symptoms early.
• Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Document runbooks, architectural decisions, and reviews.

Requirements

• Experience in keeping production systems reliable, with a combination of operations mindset and software engineering practice.
• Ability to build new infrastructure tooling and automation.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and cloud providers like GCP or AWS.
• Familiarity with observability practices and metrics.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to function in an async, distributed environment.
• Alignment with GitLab's values.

Benefits

• Health, finance, and well-being support.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental Leave.

Location

Remote, eligible in Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply through the GitLab careers page.