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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$124K/yr - $266K/yr

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by over 100,000 organizations. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Environment Automation will focus on operating and automating GitLab environments, ensuring they remain secure, consistent, and reliable at scale while driving automation and reducing manual toil.

Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsOpen SourceSaaS

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Build & Scale Multi-Tenant Infrastructure: Design and implement automation that provisions and manages hundreds of isolated GitLab environments using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Manage complex state strategies and workspace configurations to support scale and maintainability

Debug & Resolve Production Issues: Troubleshoot issues across Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, and GitLab apps—identifying root causes of failed deployments, crash loops, and scheduling conflicts to ensure service continuity

Automate Operations at Scale: Replace manual workflows with infrastructure-as-code solutions, including automated version upgrades, configuration rollouts, and provisioning pipelines that operate reliably across all tenants

Monitor & Predict Capacity: Build observability systems that detect bottlenecks, predict usage trends, and optimize resource consumption using tools like Prometheus, ELK, and Grafana

Respond & Lead During Incidents: Lead incident response and postmortem efforts, applying technical depth to resolve issues and establish operational standards that reduce future risk

Architect & Collaborate: Influence architectural decisions around automation, scalability, and operational excellence. Partner with engineering teams to improve automation, platform resilience, and production-readiness

Qualification

TerraformKubernetesProduction experienceAnsibleGitLab proficiencyProgramming in Go/RubyIncident responseCustomer collaborationObservability toolsInfrastructure automation

Required

Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot production workloads across multiple tenants or environments

Deep understanding of how distributed systems fail at scale and how to build in resilience

Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including workspace strategies, state management, and automation patterns that scale

Comfortable solving state isolation issues and building reliable, reusable infrastructure code

Skilled at diagnosing deployment failures, interpreting pod logs, and debugging scheduling issues and rollback scenarios in live environments

Understands how pods, ReplicaSets, and controllers interact in production

Ability to read and debug code in Go and/or Ruby

Familiar with identifying performance issues, scalability concerns, and contributing to infrastructure tooling through thoughtful code analysis

Experience supporting infrastructure for many customers or environments simultaneously

Comfortable managing isolation, scaling, monitoring, and incident response across diverse workloads

Able to reason through complex systems and operational challenges

Brings on-call experience and can lead technical discussions and incident resolution efforts under pressure

Proven ability to work across teams and with internal or external customers to solve technical problems while maintaining service commitments and clear communication

Comfortable using GitLab as a daily tool for infrastructure automation, collaboration, and operational workflows

Preferred

Experience with Ansible and templating tools like Jsonnet

Benefits

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

Home office support

Company

GitLab

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GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams.

Founded in 2014

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://about.gitlab.com

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$413.5M

Key Investors

ICONIQ GrowthGoogle VenturesAugust Capital

2021-10-14IPO

2019-09-17Series E· $268M

2018-09-19Series D· $100M

Leadership Team

Bill Staples

Chief Executive Officer

Sytse Sijbrandij

Co-founder and Executive Chair

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