Remote Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure Platforms

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking Site Reliability Engineers for Infrastructure Platforms. This remote-first posting evaluates candidates holistically to match you to the best opportunity across Intermediate to Senior Staff roles.

You’ll work on reliability, automation, and IaC, operating Kubernetes at scale, and contribute to observability and incident response in a global, async team. UK location is emphasized in the posting.

Qualifications

• Experience keeping production systems reliable and scalable.
• Experience building automation and tooling for infra, e.g., Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators.
• Ability to read and reason about Go/Ruby code and discuss behavior, performance, and failure modes.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud providers (GCP or AWS).
• Familiarity with observability, metrics, logs, alerts, and SLOs/SLI, using data for operations.
• Comfort in on-call and incident response, with structured troubleshooting.
• Strong written communication and ability to work async in distributed environments.
• Track record of using automation and AI to reduce toil.
• Alignment with GitLab values and working accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Keep user-facing services reliable, scalable, and efficient.
• Build automation and tooling to reduce toil using IaC-driven workflows.
• Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes, including deployments and scaling.
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code, shipping changes via CI/CD and GitOps.
• Participate in on-call, triage alerts, and improve runbooks.
• Contribute to observability using metrics, logs, and SLOs to detect signals early.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews to drive improvements.
• Document runbooks and architecture decisions to make findings repeatable.

Skills

Production reliability

Automation tooling

Go language

Ruby language

Kubernetes experience

Observability

On-call experience

Written communication

Automation

Cloud providers

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

GitOps

Job description

GitLab is seeking Site Reliability Engineers for Infrastructure Platforms. This remote-first posting evaluates candidates holistically to match you to the best opportunity across Intermediate to Senior Staff roles.

You’ll work on reliability, automation, and IaC, operating Kubernetes at scale, and contribute to observability and incident response in a global, async team. UK location is emphasized in the posting.