Site Reliability Engineer – Intermediate to Senior Staff, Infrastructure Platforms

GitLab

Site Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability of GitLab's user-facing services. Supporting operational excellence through engineering principles and automation.

Posted 7/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldSenior💰 $126,400 - $314,400 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in maintaining reliable production systems and building automation tools using Infrastructure as Code. Proficient in Kubernetes operations, incident response, and observability practices to enhance system performance and reliability.

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Kubernetes OperationsInfrastructure As CodeTerraform ModulesCloud Provider Experience (GCP or AWS)Observability Practices

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Hard Skills

Go ProgrammingRuby ProgrammingCI/CDGitOpsProduction AutomationDebuggingMetricsLoggingSLOsIncident Response

Soft Skills

Strong Written CommunicationTroubleshooting Under PressureAsync Collaboration

Industry Keywords

Production SystemsAutomationInfrastructure ToolingObservability StackRunbooks

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesRubyTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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. For example, Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators or controllers, or production automation and services written from scratch
The ability to read, debug, and reason about code. Most of our teams work in Go; some work in Ruby. You can discuss a piece of code's behavior, performance, and failure modes
Experience with infrastructure as code, and with Kubernetes and its ecosystem, at a depth appropriate to your level
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, and using data to inform operational decisions
Comfort participating in on-call and incident response, with a structured approach to troubleshooting under pressure
Strong written communication and the ability to operate as a manager-of-one in an async, distributed environment
A track record of using automation, and increasingly AI, to reduce toil and improve how you and your team work
Alignment with GitLab's values and a commitment to working in accordance with them.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental Leave