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An overview of this role
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GitLab, you 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 operating environments and the
GitLab codebase.
GitLab SREs specialize in systems (operating systems, storage
subsystems, networking), while implementing best practices for
availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in
algorithms and distributed systems.
What you’ll do
* Design and implement highly scalable infrastructure to support the needs of current and future GitLab.com.
* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and other teams throughout Infrastructure on projects to drive GitLab’s future.
* Respond to incidents on an on call rotation (our team is distributed
globally, so you only are on call during your daytime hours!) and
participate in incident review.
* Act as subject matter experts within the GitLab infrastructure
department, specializing in knowledge of our edge services and
kubernetes workloads.
* Automate every operational task.
What you’ll bring
* Experience with the Kubernetes ecosystem including Helm.
* Google Cloud Platform expertise, specifically around networking, GKE configuration, and scaling.
* Experience with Terraform infrastructure as code.
* Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Chef.
* Programming skills in Go or Ruby.
* Ability to clearly define problems and think beyond initial solutions, looking at how to make things better in the future.
* A drive for automating everything.
* Ability to be a manager of one and have a strong bias for action.
* An independent, proactive and self-organized mindset.
* An ability to clearly communicate asynchronously.
* Excitement to be doing something different every day from project work to production change requests to emergency response.
About the team
Durability is responsible for safeguarding and securing customer data
that is stored by the GitLab application and sets guidelines for data
access. Running the largest GitLab instance in existence (and in fact,
one of the largest single-tenancy open-source SaaS sites on the
Internet) means we are constantly faced with unique and rewarding
challenges that directly impact our users every day. Our future is all
about increasing automation so we can continue to scale even bigger with
enterprise level expectations around reliability and availability.
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