[Hiring] Staff Site Reliability Engineer @GitLab

Role Description

As a Staff 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 the Environment Automation specialization, your focus is on operating and automating hundreds of GitLab environments—from initial provisioning to day-to-day maintenance tasks. Unlike other SRE roles, this position centers on automating the lifecycle of many tenant environments, ensuring they remain secure, consistent, and reliable at scale.

• 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) to support proactive monitoring and incident response
• Integrating with and operating infrastructure in cloud provider ecosystems (e.g., IAM, networking, storage)
• Championing and implementing cloud security best practices across automated infrastructure

Qualifications

• Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot production workloads across multiple tenants or environments
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including workspace strategies, state management, and automation patterns that scale
• Skilled at diagnosing deployment failures, interpreting pod logs, and debugging scheduling issues and rollback scenarios in live environments
• Ability to read and debug code in Go and/or Ruby
• Experience supporting infrastructure for many customers or environments simultaneously
• Able to reason through complex systems and operational challenges
• Proven ability to work across teams and with internal or external customers to solve technical problems
• Comfortable using GitLab as a daily tool for infrastructure automation, collaboration, and operational workflows

Requirements

• Production-Scale Experience
• Terraform & IaC Mastery
• Kubernetes in Production
• Programming & Code Analysis
• Large Scale Operations Background
• Architecture & Incident Response
• Customer-Focused Collaboration
• GitLab Platform Proficiency

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave