Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer: Database Reliability Engineering

Requirements

• 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, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Experience building systems using 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.
• Knowledge or experience of distributed systems in multiple regions.
• Experience with building and maintaining SLIs and SLOs.
• Experience being on-call and responding to production incidents.

What you'll be doing

• Design and implement highly scalable infrastructure to support the needs of current and future GitLab.com architecture.
• 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 and participate in incident review.Act as subject matter experts within the GitLab infrastructure department, specializing in provisioning of multiple isolated GitLab instances and supporting services to have each GitLab instance work in Cluster mode.
• Automating every operational task is a core requirement for SRE.
• Work with backend engineers from inception to production readiness for new distributed services running in multiple regions to allow scalability and reliability of GitLab.com.