Site Reliability Engineer, Intermediate to Senior Staff — Infrastructure Platforms

An overview of this role

Site Reliability Engineers keep GitLab's user-facing services and production systems running reliably at scale. They combine software engineering with operational excellence, applying sound engineering principles, automation, and continuous improvement to build, operate, and evolve our production infrastructure.

This is a single application for Site Reliability Engineering opportunities across our Infrastructure Platforms department. Rather than asking you to choose the right team or level upfront, we evaluate your skills holistically and match you to the opportunity that best aligns with your experience and our hiring needs. We hire Site Reliability Engineers from Intermediate through Senior Staff across multiple Infrastructure Platforms teams.

We don't expect every candidate to have experience with every technology in our environment. We're looking for engineers with strong technical fundamentals, a growth mindset, and the ability to learn quickly. We'll support you in becoming successful with GitLab's tools, systems, and ways of working.

How our SRE hiring works

Because this is a single application for SRE roles across Infrastructure Platforms, our process is built to evaluate you once and match you well, rather than interviewing separately for every team.

• Recruiter Screen: A conversation about your background, what you're looking for, and the level and teams that fit, so we can point your process in the right direction.
• Core Technical: The shared assessment every SRE candidate takes, regardless of eventual team. A low-stress, collaborative discussion covering source code, system architecture, and incident review.
• Peer Technical: Team-specific depth, run by SREs from the team you're most likely to join, focused on the problems that team actually works on.
• Hiring Manager Interview: A conversation about ownership, judgment, execution, collaboration, and growth, the non-technical signals that make an SRE effective at GitLab.
• Skip-Level Interview: A conversation with a senior leader on values alignment, and how you'll work across teams.

After your interviews, we consider your performance alongside our current hiring needs to confirm the level and team where you'll do your best work. Interview results are a major factor, and final placement also reflects our active hiring priorities at the time.