Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, Environment Automation

About the Role

We are responsible for building, running, and evolving the entire lifecycle of the GitLab environments that power the GitLab Dedicated platform. You'll be part of our team focused on owning the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of automated single-tenant GitLab instances and their supporting services. GitLab Dedicated provides fully managed, isolated environments for customers around the world, which means your work directly impacts how organizations of all sizes run their mission-critical software delivery on GitLab. We operate in a fully distributed, asynchronous environment across multiple regions, collaborating on everything from infrastructure automation and environment lifecycle design to incident response and capacity planning. You'll be solving novel challenges at scale, from orchestrating infrastructure-as-code workflows across hundreds of tenants to designing the automation that keeps those environments consistent, secure, and up to date. We continuously seek to reduce complexity and improve efficiency by leveraging cloud vendor managed products and services where appropriate, ensuring GitLab Dedicated remains a best-in-class managed platform for our customers. For more on how we operate, see the relevant GitLab Dedicated and infrastructure handbook pages.How GitLab will support you

Requirements

A proactive mindset focused on automation and documentation—you look for opportunities to remove manual steps, improve runbooks, and turn repetitive tasks into reliable, self-service tools. Comfort working asynchronously across distributed teams and a desire to contribute to GitLab's values of collaboration, transparency, and iteration. Basic programming skills in languages such as Go or Ruby are valuable but not required; we welcome candidates with diverse technical backgrounds and transferable skills, especially those experienced in reading, debugging, or contributing to infrastructure tooling.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off  Team Member Resource Groups Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan Growth and Development Fund Parental leave  Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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