Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab
FinOps
$98-210k
Salary range for California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota based candidates only. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary
One DevOps platform
Posted today
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$98-210k
Salary range for California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota based candidates only. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary
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
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, particularly those used at GitLab (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Are passionate about ensuring that systems are not only scalable and reliable but also financially optimized
- Have a deep understanding of large-scale systems and their financial impacts, including failure modes and cost-benefit analysis
- Enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Finance, Compliance) to solve complex challenges that affect both operational performance and financial outcomes
- Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, and are eager to deepen your expertise in cloud cost management and optimization
What the job involves
- FinOps Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at GitLab ensure the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our user-facing services and internal systems
- We are a team of pragmatic engineers, blending operational discipline, engineering best practices, and automation to manage complex environments and large-scale infrastructures
- Our core mission is to operate GitLab's systems with financial accountability, striving for optimal cost-performance balance
- You will play a critical role in driving the integration of FinOps principles into GitLab’s operational and engineering practices
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Finance, Engineering, and Compliance, to ensure that financial efficiency is embedded in all stages of system design, deployment, and operation
- Build:
- Automate operational tasks related to cost management, including the provisioning of cost-efficient cloud resources and managing configurations to reduce unnecessary spending
- Develop tools and processes for tracking, reporting, and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs, ensuring all operational tasks are automated for maximum efficiency and scalability
- Plan:
- Partner with the Finance and Engineering teams to identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs while maintaining high levels of service reliability and performance
- Use data-driven insights and FinOps best practices to evaluate and make trade-offs between infrastructure costs and feature development priorities
- Drive the adoption of cost-conscious decision-making throughout the development and deployment lifecycle, ensuring that financial considerations are prioritized alongside technical goals
- Partner:
- Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for financial operations (FinOps) across the GitLab Infrastructure team, helping to drive cloud cost optimization strategies
- Work with internal and external auditors to ensure financial compliance, particularly in relation to cloud infrastructure usage. Support audits and certifications like FedRAMP, SOC2, and ISO by collaborating with the Finance and Compliance teams
- Provide insight into how changes in GitLab’s systems, infrastructure, and usage patterns affect financial forecasting, reporting, and budgeting
- Collaborate:
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to identify and eliminate architectural bottlenecks that impact cloud efficiency and cost. Offer a large-scale operational perspective to help teams design systems that are both reliable and financially sustainable
- Collaborate across engineering teams to promote cost-awareness and share best practices for optimizing cloud infrastructure spending, encouraging the integration of FinOps principles in day-to-day decision-making
- Key Projects You Could Work On:
- Develop, evangelize, and monitor the adoption of FinOps best practices across GitLab’s cloud infrastructure
- Engage with US Public Sector entities and regulatory bodies to ensure GitLab’s services meet Federal compliance standards and are financially optimized for large-scale deployments
- Partner with Finance to evaluate and forecast costs, making sure that GitLab's cloud footprint is cost-effective and aligned with business objectives
- Drive cost-efficient changes across various GitLab environments and cloud provider systems (AWS, GCP) while contributing to GitLab’s observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, ELK)
- Work on GitLab’s core projects (e.g., GitLab Rails, GitLab Runners) to enhance both technical and financial aspects of our infrastructure
- Contribute to GitLab’s automation tools (e.g., Helm Charts, Omnibus GitLab) and infrastructure-as-code initiatives to ensure that cost controls are built into the deployment pipelines
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 capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue 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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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $432.4m
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 values
- Collaboration - We prioritize things that help us work together effectively, such as assuming positive intent, saying “thanks” and “sorry,” and giving timely feedback.
- Results - We operate with a sense of urgency and bias for action, and we do what we promise — to each other, customers, users, and investors.
- Efficiency - From choosing boring solutions to documenting everything and being managers of one, we strive to make fast progress on the right things.
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging - We work to ensure GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can thrive.
- Iteration - We aim to do the smallest viable and valuable thing, and get it out quickly for feedback.
- Transparency - Everything we do is public by default, from our company handbook to the issue trackers for our product.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GitLab
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging is woven into our values and everything we do
- GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
- GitLab is a global, multi-cultural organization with team members all over the world
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