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GitLab's DevOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 1,400+ team members and values that guide a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.

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.

GitLab.com is a unique site and it brings unique challenges–it’s the biggest GitLab instance in existence. In fact, it’s one of the largest single-tenancy open-source SaaS sites on the internet. The experience of our team feeds back into other engineering groups within the company, as well as to GitLab customers running self-managed installations

Responsibilities

  1. Automating every operational task is a core requirement for this role. For example, package updates, configuration changes across all environments, creating tools for automatic provisioning of user facing services, etc.
  2. Responding to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support.
  3. Ensure systems exist to manage software life-cycles (e.g. Operating Systems) with a minimum of manual effort.
  4. Develop a fully automated multi-environment observability stack based on the existing SaaS system, and extend it to predict capacity needs based on the usage patterns.
  5. Plan for new service roll-outs, expansion and capacity management of existing services, and work with users to optimise their resource consumption.

As an SRE you will:

  • Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to GitLab.com availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
  • Analyze existing, create and maintain new GitLab.com Service Level Objectives.
  • Troubleshoot, evaluate and resolve operational challenges contributing to defined SLO's.
  • Define, improve, and engage in adapting architectural application bottlenecks as observed on GitLab.com.
  • Work with other engineering stakeholders on resolving larger architectural bottlenecks and participate by offering GitLab.com point of view.
  • Work in close collaboration with software development teams to shape the future roadmap and establish strong operational readiness across teams.
  • Scale systems through automation, improving change velocity and reliability.
  • Leverage technical skills to partner with team members and be comfortable diving into a problem as needed.
  • Work with counterparts in other teams of the Infrastructure department to improve infrastructure running with Chef, Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
  • Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions–and then into automation.
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.


You may be a fit to this role if you:

  • Have strong programming skills as a (former) backend engineer - Preferably with Ruby and/or Go.
  • Are able to reason about large systems - how they work on large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
  • Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
  • Have experience in collaborating and communicating asynchronously.
  • Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice.
  • Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
  • Have a strong sense for action and know how to iterate through a problem quickly.
  • Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
  • Have experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies.
  • Are able to leverage GitLab as your day to day go-to tool.

Projects you could work on:

  • Working from the Scalability team’s issue tracker, driving changes required to  scale GitLab at GitLab.com size.
  • Work on the GitLab core projects such as, GitLab Rails, GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, etc.
  • Work on projects that create deployment packages of GitLab such as, GitLab Helm Chart, omnibus-gitlab, etc.
  • Coding infrastructure automation with Chef and Terraform.
  • Work on application side changes required for GitLab.com migration to Kubernetes
  • Improving our Prometheus Monitoring or building new Metrics


Senior Site Reliability Engineer Criteria

Technical:

  1. Deep knowledge in 2 areas of expertise and general knowledge of all areas of expertise. Capable of mentoring Junior in all areas and other SRE in their area of deep knowledge.
  2. Contributes small improvements to the GitLab codebase to resolve issues

Execution:

  1. Identifies significant projects that result in substantial cost savings or revenue
  2. Identifies changes for the product architecture from the reliability, performance and availability perspective with a data driven approach.
  3. Proactively work on the efficiency and capacity planning to set clear requirements and reduce the system resources usage to make GitLab cheaper to run for all our customers.
  4. Identify parts of the system that do not scale, provides immediate palliative measures and drives long term resolution of these incidents.
  5. Identify Service Level Indicators (SLIs) that will align the team to meet the availability and latency objectives.

Collaboration and Communication:

  1. Know a domain really well and radiate that knowledge
  2. Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again.

Influence and Maturity:

  1. Lead Production SREs and Junior Production SREs by setting the example.
  2. Show ownership of a major part of the infrastructure.
  3. Trusted to de-escalate conflicts inside the team

Performance Indicators

Site Reliability Engineers have the following job-family performance indicators:

  • GitLab.com Availability
  • GitLab.com Performance
  • Apdex and Error SLO per Service
  • Mean Time to Detection
  • Mean Time to Resolution
  • Mean Time Between Failure
  • Mean Time to Production
  • Disaster Recovery Time to Recovery

Compensation

Please view the compensation range for this role at the bottom of the position description.

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GitLab Benefits Overview

We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location with the flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Relocation assistance
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available

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