Job Details

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database Operations

Remote, Canada

GiltLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and other GitLab production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and the GitLab codebase.

The Database Operations Team mission is to build, run, own and evolve the entire lifecycle of the PostgreSQL database engine for GitLab.com. The team is focused on owning the reliability, scalability, performance & security of the database engine and its supporting services.

Responsibilities

• Automating every operational task is a core requirement for this role.
• Responding to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support.
• Ensure systems exist to manage software life-cycles with a minimum of manual effort.
• Develop a fully automated multi-environment observability stack based on the existing SaaS system.
• Plan for new service roll-outs, expansion and capacity management of existing services.

Requirements

• Have extensive experience as an SRE supporting database operations teams.
• Have strong experience running PostgreSQL at scale in large production environments.
• Have strong experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management.
• Have solid understanding of SQL and PL/pgSQL.
• Significant experience working in a Large SaaS distributed Systems production environment.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on a large-scale PostgreSQL database engine.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.

EEO Statement

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLabs policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.