Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Tenant Services – Geo

Role Overview

• Execute Dedicated Geo migrations and cutovers end-to-end, including planning, pre-cutover validation, execution, and post-cutover verification and cleanup.
• Join the team’s shift and weekend coverage rotation for Dedicated cutovers across EMEA and US hours, and participate in the SaaS Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact GitLab.com availability.
• Operate and improve the Geo operational surface for Dedicated, including:
• Environment preparation and data hygiene checks prior to migrations.
• Execution of replication, validation, and cutover procedures.
• Handling Geo-related escalations from Support and internal partners.
• Design, build, and maintain automation, tooling, and runbooks that make migrations, cutovers, and Geo escalations as “boring” and repeatable as possible.
• Run our infrastructure with tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes; contribute improvements back to GitLab’s product and infrastructure where appropriate.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards that:
• Detect symptoms early, not just outages.
• Track migration and cutover success rates, duration, rollback frequency, and related SLOs.
• Collaborate closely with:
• The core Geo team on improving Geo features and operability.
• Dedicated migrations and Support on migration planning, customer communications, and escalation handling.
• Other Infrastructure teams on capacity planning, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements.
• Contribute to readiness reviews, incident reviews, and root cause analyses, turning learnings into changes in automation, process, or product.
• Document every action, including runbooks, architecture decisions, and post-incident reviews, so your findings turn into repeatable practices and automation.
• Proactively identify and reduce toil by automating repetitive operational work and simplifying migration workflows.

Requirements

• Experience operating highly-available distributed systems at scale, ideally in a SaaS environment with customer-facing SLAs.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (e.g., Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services), including networking, storage, and managed services.
• Experience with Kubernetes and its ecosystem (e.g., Helm), including deploying and troubleshooting workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Strong programming skills in at least one general-purpose language (preferably Go or Ruby) and proficiency with scripting (e.g., Shell, Python).
• Experience with observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, logging stacks) and using metrics and logs to troubleshoot performance and reliability issues.
• Practical exposure to data replication, backup/restore, or migration scenarios (e.g., database replication, storage replication, or Geo-like technologies) where data integrity and downtime risk must be carefully managed.
• Comfort participating in an on-call rotation, investigating incidents across the stack, and driving follow-through on corrective actions.
• Ability to engage directly with enterprise customers during migrations and incidents, including on live calls and through clear written updates.
• Ability to clearly define problems, propose options, and think beyond immediate fixes to improve systems and processes over time.
• Ability to be a “manager of one”: self-directed, organized, and able to drive work to completion in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a bias toward clear, asynchronous documentation and collaboration.
• Alignment with our company values and a commitment to working in accordance with those values.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Chef
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Python
• Ruby
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support