Site Reliability Engineer, Gitaly:Git

Requirements

• Experience running highly-available systems in production environments at scale
• Hands-on experience with Cloud technologies including Kubernetes
• Proven professional experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments
• Proven professional experience writing and testing high-quality code
• A good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Terraform infrastructure as code
• Proven professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go
• A good understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers
• Experience with gRPC
• Willingness to learn Ruby

What You'll Be Doing

• Work with peer SREs to maintain Gitaly’s environments within GitLab’s SaaS offerings
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly
• Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service
• Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the team’s goals
• Develop production automation and tooling for Gitaly
• Help ensure that Gitaly development tooling, releases, and other processes serve the team and product’s goals
• Instrument, monitor, and profile Gitaly in the production environment
• Build dashboards and alerts to monitor the health of your services
• Conduct acceptance testing of the features you’ve built
• Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability
• Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review others’ code
• Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways to address pain points
• Qualify developers for hiring
• Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including regular on-call duties

Perks and Benefits

• Base salary range: $103,600 - $166,500 USD
• Remote work opportunities
• Equal opportunity workplace
• Privacy policy and data protection