Senior Site Reliability Engineer, General
GitLab
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An overview of this role
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
- 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.
- Responding to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support.
- Ensure systems exist to manage software life-cycles (e.g. Operating Systems) with a minimum of manual effort.
- 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.
- Plan for new service roll-outs, expansion and capacity management of existing services, and work with users to optimize their resource consumption.
Some examples of the projects you could work on:
- 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
What you’ll do
- 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.
What you’ll bring
- Have programming skills - Preferably with Ruby and/or Go.
- 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.
How GitLab will support you
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and development budget
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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