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Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab Delivery - Release and Deploy

Remote, EMEARemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Oct 2025

About the role

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

SRE's with Delivery specialization work alongside Backend Engineers with a focus primarily on improving our delivery platform, release management tooling and processes. While the backend engineers approach their responsibilities from a software developer point of view, the SREs approach the same problems from the operational perspective and collaborate closely on finding an optimal solution that will safely and quickly deliver code to various supported environments.

What you’ll do

Guarantees the GitLab Release Process.
Creates new tools to automate the release process.
Builds new GitLab release features to replace existing custom tooling.
Works with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker.
Creates frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand.
Helps teams instrument their code and helps recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability.
Works closely with peer Infrastructure teams to control the impact of application code running in user facing products.
Helps communicate the release schedule clearly with others.
Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity.
Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations.

What you’ll bring

Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn.
Experience working on large scale systems.
Experience with release processes and tooling.
Experience with different deployment strategies.
Hands on experience with Kubernetes.
A strong application and systems observability background.
A product development mindset when developing new components.

About the team

The Delivery Group is responsible for guaranteeing and improving the software delivery for GitLab.com, as well as self-managed users by improving the release management tooling and processes. Delivery engineers work closely with teams across Development, Quality, Security, and Reliability Engineering to ensure features are delivered in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion.