Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation

About this role

Operate and automate the lifecycle of hundreds of GitLab Dedicated customer environments, from provisioning through upgrades and maintenance. Build resilient, secure infrastructure automation and improve reliability, observability, and operational efficiency at scale.

About the company

GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.

The team

GitLab Dedicated team

Stack

What you'll do

• Build automation to provision and manage isolated GitLab environments at scale
• Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, cloud services, and GitLab applications
• Automate upgrades, configuration rollouts, and provisioning workflows
• Improve monitoring, capacity planning, and resource efficiency
• Lead incident response and postmortems
• Influence architecture and operational standards with engineering partners

What we're looking for

• Production experience operating workloads across multiple tenants or environments
• Strong Terraform skills, including state management, workspaces, and scalable automation
• Production Kubernetes troubleshooting experience
• Ability to read and debug Go and/or Ruby code
• Experience with on-call, incident response, and distributed systems
• Strong cross-team and customer-focused communication

Nice to have

• Experience with Ansible and Jsonnet
• Experience with cloud services and infrastructure security best practices

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
• Growth and development fund
• Parental leave
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits