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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Runway

Remote, APAC; Remote, EMEARemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Apr 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 the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

The GitLab Runway team is working on our next-generation platform to rapidly deploy backend services that automatically take advantage of GitLab infrastructure, security, observability, and data access. It’s a platform engineering project in the truest sense. We’re enabling self-service development across the entire GitLab engineering ecosystem to quickly build and deploy services to complement the GitLab product offerings.

We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us build, maintain, and optimize our infrastructure. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure on both GCP and AWS
Help create and maintain Kubernetes tooling, logging, secrets management and utilities
Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems
Participate in on-call rotation to address critical issues
Automate manual processes to increase efficiency and reduce errors
Lead incident response, including postmortem analysis
Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles
Strong experience with both GCP and AWS cloud platforms
Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration
Solid programming skills in Golang and scripting languages
Experience designing and implementing logging solutions
Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure operations
Experience with on-call rotations and incident management
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team
Comfortable in a fully remote, heavily asynchronous environment across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
Background in distributed systems and microservice architectures
Security best practices in cloud-native environments
Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and workflows

Mandatory non-technical skills, experience and characteristics

Willingness and ability to live and promote Gitlab's unique CREDIT Values in one's day to day work and interactions with teammates.
Superior verbal and written communication skills
Cool, collected and composed under pressure
Comfortable and productive working asynchronously across timezones and cultures, at the speed and scale of business.
Enable others to excel
Be a Leader of One
Act Like an Owner with Gitlab's resources.