An overview of this role

• As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GitLab, you are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and the GitLab codebase.
• GitLab SREs specialize in systems (operating systems, storage subsystems, networking), while implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systems.

What you’ll do  

• Design and implement highly scalable infrastructure to support the needs of current and future GitLab.com.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and other teams throughout Infrastructure on projects to drive GitLab’s future.
• Respond to incidents on an on call rotation (our team is distributed globally, so you only are on call during your daytime hours!) and participate in incident review.
• Act as subject matter experts within the GitLab infrastructure department, specializing in knowledge of our edge services and kubernetes workloads.
• Automate every operational task.

What you’ll bring 

• Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem including Helm.
• Google Cloud Platform expertise, specifically around networking, GKE configuration, and scaling.
• Experience with Terraform infrastructure as code.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Chef.
• Programming skills in Go or Ruby.
• Ability to clearly define problems and think beyond initial solutions, looking at how to make things better in the future.
• A drive for automating everything.
• Ability to be a manager of one and have a strong bias for action.
• An independent,  proactive and self-organized mindset.
• An ability to clearly communicate asynchronously.
• Excitement to be doing something different every day from project work to production change requests to emergency response.