Site Reliability Engineer / Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Delivery:Systems

The Delivery Group is responsible for guaranteeing and improving the software delivery for GitLab.com, as well as self-managed users by improving the release management tooling and processes. Delivery engineers work closely with teams across Development, Quality, Security, and Reliability Engineering to ensure features are delivered in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion.

Responsibilities

SRE's with Delivery:Systems specialization work alongside Backend Engineers with a focus primarily on improving our delivery platform, release management tooling and processes. While the backend engineers approach their responsibilities from a software developer point of view, the SRE's approach the same problems from the operational perspective and collaborate closely on finding an optimal solution that will safely and quickly deliver code to various supported environments.

• Guarantees the GitLab Release Process.
• Creates new tools to automate the release process.
• Builds new GitLab release features to replace existing custom tooling.
• Works with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker.
• Creates frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand.
• Helps teams instrument their code and helps recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability.
• Works closely with peer Infrastructure teams to control the impact of application code running in user facing products.
• Helps communicate the release schedule clearly with others.
• Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity.
• Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations.

Requirements

As an ideal candidate you will have 

• Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn.
• Experience working on large scale systems.
• Experience with release processes and tooling.
• Experience with different deployment strategies.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes.
• A strong application and systems observability background.
• A product development mindset when developing new components.

 You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Performance indicators

The Delivery team has the following performance indicators:

• Mean Time to Production 

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $100,800 - $177,100 for Colorado residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.