Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab
Database Operations:Clickhouse
$117.6-252k
Salary is applicable to candidates based in California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Washington, DC, Illinois and Minnesota only and may vary by other locations. + Equity Compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
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$117.6-252k
Salary is applicable to candidates based in California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Washington, DC, Illinois and Minnesota only and may vary by other locations. + Equity Compensation + 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
- Advanced database platform management experience, preferably using Postgres and Clickhouse at scale
- Advanced Cloud Infrastructure automation and management, preferably using Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Helm charts, Operators and Kubernetes
- Solid experience with at least one programming language: Go, Ruby or Python
- Advanced experience with Linux
- Extensive on-call experience as an SRE supporting mission critical systems
- Solid incident management experience, across all phases: Analysis, Remediation, RCA and Corrective Actions
- Solid experience implementing monitoring at scale (preferably Prometheus and Grafana)
- 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
What the job involves
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly 24x7x365
- 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, along these functions:
- Design, build, and maintain ClickHouse and PostgreSQL clusters to support high-demand, enterprise-scale workloads
- Provision and Orchestrate cloud infrastructure using configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef), IaC (Terraform) and the Kubernetes ecosystem (Helm charts, Operators) and distributed consensus (etcd) in GCP
- Design and implement enterprise-grade, high-availability ClickHouse solutions with ClickHouse Keeper, sharding, and replication, optimized for large-scale and dynamic datasets
- Optimize and scale high-transaction PostgreSQL clusters with Patroni and streaming replication for GitLab’s core applications on GCP
- Build and maintain early warning systems, monitoring, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana) to predict capacity needs, monitor query latency and replication lag, and ensure resource optimization across platforms
- Enable cross-database integrations and workflows, such as ClickHouse-to-PostgreSQL data federation, CDC, and logical replication, to support hybrid analytics
- Respond to platform alerts, user emergencies, and support requests while ensuring strict adherence to SLOs, including during SRE on-call rotations
- Enhance infrastructure security by implementing and updating measures that protect GitLab’s systems and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO)
- Partner with internal and external compliance assessors as Subject Matter Experts during certifications and recertifications
- Collaborate with engineering teams to address architectural bottlenecks, plan service rollouts and migrations, and shape the future roadmap while maintaining strong operational readiness
- The Database Operations Engineer at GitLab is responsible for the Building, Running and Owning and Evolving of the entire lifecycle of database engines for GitLab.com
- We are a globally distributed team of five, spanning EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, with plans to grow further
- Our mission is to ensure the reliability and continuous evolution of the database infrastructure behind GitLab
- Com and beyond
- GitLab’s CREDIT values guide our behavior and are deeply woven into the fabric of our daily work
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: $432.6m
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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