Base Salary
$126k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Keep user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient.
- Build automation and tooling that reduces toil through repeatable infrastructure-as-code-driven workflows.
- Operate and troubleshoot production systems on Kubernetes, including deployments, rollouts, and scaling.
- Write and maintain infrastructure as code and safely ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps.
- Participate in on-call, alert triage, runbook improvement, and escalation.
- Contribute to observability using metrics, logs, and SLOs.
- Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews and convert findings into automation and process improvements.
- Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and technical reviews.
Requirements
- Experience keeping production systems reliable through a combination of operations and software engineering.
- Experience building new infrastructure tooling and automation, such as Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators or controllers, or production automation and services from scratch.
- Ability to read, debug, and reason about code, primarily in Go or sometimes Ruby.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and Kubernetes and its ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, GCP or AWS.
- Familiarity with observability practices including metrics, logging, alerting, SLOs, or SLIs.
- Comfort participating in on-call and incident response and troubleshooting under pressure.
- Strong written communication and ability to operate independently in an asynchronous, distributed environment.
- Track record of using automation and increasingly AI to reduce toil and improve team workflows.
- Alignment with GitLab’s values.
Benefits
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible paid time off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- Fully remote work in a globally distributed, asynchronous environment
Tech Stack
Categories
About GitLab
GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks across the software lifecycle. Agents handle code generation, security analysis, code review, CI/CD troubleshooting, and custom workflows — while teams maintain control through enterprise governance. Build what's next with us. Explore open roles and join our talent community: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/