Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab
Environment Automation
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in running and operating production workloads
- Strong programming skills - preferably with Ruby and/or Go
- Strong background with Infrastructure as a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab, such as Terraform and Ansible. Experience with data templating tools such as Jsonnet would be considered a bonus
- Ability to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, and behaviors
- Experience regularly interacting with customers, and a focus on resolving their requests with a sense of urgency
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer at GitLab, you are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly
- Our 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
- As an SRE within the Environment Automation specialization, you primarily focus on operating a large number of GitLab environments, through automating all workflows - from provisioning new environments to daily operating tasks
- This is the main difference between Environment Automation SRE and other SRE’s at GitLab; your day to day will be occupied by automation tasks of a large number of GitLab environments (and the environments used by GitLab), and operational tasks across many environments
- Some examples of the projects you could work on:
- Automation used to operate a large number of GitLab environments
- Projects that create deployment packages of GitLab such as, GitLab Helm Chart, omnibus-gitlab, etc
- Building Dedicated Gitlab setups using infrastructure as code automation with Ansible and Terraform and integrate with Cloud Native services from cloud providers (e.g GCP, AWS)
- Building Tools to orchestrate infrastructure as code workloads
- Build: Automating every operational task is a core requirement for Environment Automation SRE. E.g. package updates, configuration changes across all customer platforms without interruptions, tools for automatic provisioning of customer facing services, etc
- Maintain: Develop a good (early) warning system and system that allows for reliable and quick maintenance tasks, such as library upgrades, version migrations and similar
- Plan: Develop monitoring and alerting systems that predict capacity needs based on the customer usage patterns. Plan for new service rollouts, expansion of existing services and preparing advice for customers to optimize their resource consumption
- Respond: Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests
- Enhance: Implement new, and update existing security measures for the protection of GitLab infrastructure
- Collaborate: Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering a large scale operational point of view. Work in close collaboration with software development teams to shape the future roadmap and establish strong operational readiness across teams
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $434.7m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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