Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab
Observability
+ Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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 a Code technologies, and libraries powering GitLab
- Have experience with Grafana’s LGTM stack, or Elastic’s stack (ELK)
- Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors
- Enjoy working with peers and collaborating across teams to deliver unique solutions to various technical challenges
- Are able to leverage GitLab as your day-to-day go-to tool
What the job involves
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly
- SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and the GitLab codebase
- We specialize in systems, whether it be networking, the Linux kernel, or some more specific interest in scaling, algorithms, or distributed systems
- The Observability Team's mission is to Build, Run and Own the entire lifecycle of the suite of services that enable observability of the GitLab SaaS environments
- Hese services allow Infrastructure, Development and Product teams to observe how their code runs on GitLab’s SaaS Platforms and contribute to our overall reliability and scalability goals
- This also extends from metrics gathering and telemetry to how that information is used by the Infrastructure and Development teams
- Build: Automating as much as possible. Tasks should not be manual. Our Observability stack needs to be extended to support our growth and we need engineers to focus on how to build sustainably
- Maintain: Our metrics environment as well as the tools and processes we have developed to provide this information throughout the company
- 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: There is a requirement to be part of an on-call rota in this role
- Partner: Act as Subject Matter Experts for metrics gathering, observability guidelines, and capacity planning
- 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
- Projects you could work on:
- Work on the GitLab core projects such as, GitLab Rails, GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, etc
- Coding infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform, and comfortable with managed Kubernetes platforms
- Work on the GitLab observability stack (e.g. ELK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Interact with various cloud provider systems (e.g. GCP, AWS)
- Error Budgets for Engineering at GitLab
- Capacity Planning with Tamland
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: $434.8m
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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