Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Runway

The GitLab Runway team is working on our next-generation platform to rapidly deploy backend services that automatically take advantage of GitLab infrastructure, security, observability, and data access. It's a platform engineering project in the truest sense. We're enabling self-service development across the entire GitLab engineering ecosystem to quickly build and deploy services to complement the GitLab product offerings., We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us build, maintain, and optimize our infrastructure. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are reliable, scalable, and performant.,

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure on both GCP and AWS
• Help create and maintain Kubernetes tooling, logging, secrets management and utilities
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems
• Participate in on-call rotation to address critical issues
• Automate manual processes to increase efficiency and reduce errors
• Lead incident response, including postmortem analysis
• Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization
  
  5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or similar roles
• Strong experience with both GCP and AWS cloud platforms
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Solid programming skills in Golang and scripting languages
• Experience designing and implementing logging solutions
• Demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure operations
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident management
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team
• Comfortable in a fully remote, heavily asynchronous environment across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Background in distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Security best practices in cloud-native environments
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and workflows
Mandatory non-technical skills, experience and characteristics
• 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.