Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Stores: DBRE (AMER)

Responsibilities:

• Automating every operational task is a core requirement for this role. For example, package updates, configuration changes across all environments, creating tools for automatic provisioning of user facing services, etc.
• Responding to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support.
• Ensure systems exist to manage software life-cycles (e.g. Operating Systems) with a minimum of manual effort.
• Develop a fully automated multi-environment observability stack based on the existing SaaS system, and extend it to predict capacity needs based on the usage patterns.
• Plan for new service roll-outs, expansion and capacity management of existing services, and work with users to optimize their resource consumption.

As an SRE you will:

• Work on database reliability and performance aspects for GitLab.com from within the SRE team as well as work on shipping solutions with the product.
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for our main PostgreSQL database cluster and its components.
• Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.
• Work with peer SREs to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
• OnCall support on rotation with the team.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• Use the GitLab product to run GitLab.com as a first resort and improve the product as much as possible.
• Plan the growth of GitLab's database infrastructure