Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GitLab
Database Excellence
$124.3-266.4k
Plus incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$124.3-266.4k
Plus 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
- Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in high-growth, large production environments, including both self-managed infrastructure and database-as-a-service platforms
- Expertise with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet to automate operational tasks and drive system reliability
- Solid understanding of SQL, PL/pgSQL, data modeling, and data structure design; ability to analyze PostgreSQL internals to troubleshoot and optimize systems
- Experience working in large-scale, distributed SaaS production environments where you've managed reliability, performance, and scalability challenges at significant scale
- Strong written communication skills and commitment to documentation; you thrive in remote, asynchronous environments and share knowledge effectively across your team
- Proactive, hands-on approach where you identify issues, take ownership of solutions, and contribute improvements to infrastructure and code
- Capability to mentor junior team members and develop deep expertise in your domain areas, then share that knowledge to help others grow
- Backend engineering experience with languages such as Ruby or Go, and/or familiarity with OLAP databases like Clickhouse
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and operators for managing database infrastructure and stateful services in containerized environments
What the job involves
- You'll join our Database Excellence team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- You'll help keep GitLab.com, one of the largest single-tenancy open source SaaS platforms on the internet, running smoothly and reliably
- In this role, you'll take ownership of the PostgreSQL database infrastructure that powers millions of developers worldwide, automating operational tasks, improving system performance and reliability, and designing solutions that scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
- You'll work at a unique scale where your decisions directly impact the experience of our customers, and the feedback you generate informs product development across GitLab
- Over your tenure, you'll establish and deepen expertise in core areas of database operations, mentor team members at all levels, and drive projects that deliver measurable improvements to system efficiency and reliability
- You bring both pragmatic operational discipline and software craftsmanship to this role
- You're not just responding to incidents
- You're designing systems and building automation that prevent them
- You'll partner with engineering teams across GitLab to review database changes, optimize performance, and help others succeed through self-service tooling and knowledge sharing
- This is hands-on infrastructure work at scale, where your contributions directly shape how reliably and securely GitLab serves the entire platform
- Automate operational tasks across all environments, from package updates and configuration changes to provisioning of user-facing services, so manual effort becomes the exception, not the rule
- Design and maintain PostgreSQL database infrastructure components that allow GitLab.com to scale reliably while supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
- Respond to production incidents and platform emergencies, working with peer SREs to diagnose and resolve database-related issues quickly and thoroughly
- Build observability systems that monitor database health, predict capacity needs based on usage patterns, and alert on symptoms rather than outages
- Develop and ship database performance solutions in collaboration with product and engineering teams, including query optimization, migration reviews, and infrastructure recommendations
- Create self-service tools and automation, using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and GitLab ChatOps, that empower engineering teams to manage their own database interactions safely
- Document decisions, learnings, and operational procedures so that knowledge becomes repeatable actions and eventually becomes automation
- Participate in regularly scheduled on-call rotations to ensure GitLab.com remains operational during off-hours and weekends when necessary
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $434.9m
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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