# Site Reliability Engineer, Intermediate to Senior Staff

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $126k – $314k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure As Code, Go, Ruby, GCP, AWS, CI/CD, GitOps, Observability, Metrics, Logging, SLOs, Incident Response, Automation
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Site Reliability Engineers build and operate scalable production infrastructure, automate operational workflows, and improve observability, incident response, and service reliability. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, and software engineering.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Keep user-facing services and production systems reliable, scalable, and efficient.
- Build automation and tooling that reduces toil and replaces manual work with 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 ship changes safely through CI/CD and GitOps.
- Participate in on-call, triage alerts, follow and improve runbooks, and escalate appropriately.
- Contribute to the observability stack using metrics, logs, and SLOs to detect symptoms early.
- Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, turning learnings into changes in automation and process.
- Document runbooks, architecture decisions, and reviews so findings become repeatable practices.

## What You'll Bring

- Experience keeping production systems reliable, combining an operations mindset with software engineering practice.
- Experience building net-new infrastructure tooling and automation, such as Terraform modules, Kubernetes operators or controllers, and production automation or services written from scratch.
- Ability to read, debug, and reason about code, including behavior, performance, and failure modes. Most teams work in Go; some work in Ruby.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and its ecosystem.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, such as Google Cloud or AWS.
- Familiarity with observability practices, including metrics, logging, alerting, and SLOs or SLIs.
- Comfort participating in on-call and incident response, with a structured approach to troubleshooting under pressure.
- Strong written communication and ability to operate independently in an async, distributed environment.
- Track record of using automation and AI to reduce toil and improve team workflows.
- Alignment with GitLab's values.

## Compensation

- Annual salary range: **126400–314400**.

## Role Levels

- **Intermediate:** Contributes independently to reliability, automation, and operational efficiency within a scoped area.
- **Senior:** Drives reliability improvements across multiple projects or services and leads investigations and incident response.
- **Staff:** Shapes reliability strategy across teams and defines reusable patterns.
- **Senior Staff:** Sets technical direction across a sub-department and drives complex systems initiatives.

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