Site Reliability Engineer, Cells Infrastructure
Core
Build and operate Cells, the architecture that splits GitLab.com into independent units with their own application and data stacks behind a shared routing layer.
Role type
Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Independent application units (cells), global routing layer, and CI/CD pipelines for ring-based deployments.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & Distributed Systems
Required skills
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Go, SRE best practices, distributed systems fundamentals, progressive delivery, asynchronous written communication
Preferred skills
Cloudflare Workers, Envoy, Cloud Spanner, Argo CD, TypeScript, GitLab scale operations
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Cloudflare Workers, Envoy, Cloud Spanner, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis
Responsibilities
Operate Cells in production including on-call rotation and incident response; Define and monitor SLOs for routing and cell health; Provision and operate cell infrastructure on AWS and GCP; Develop infrastructure as code; Operate and extend the global routing layer; Improve CI/CD pipelines for ring-based deployments; Support organization migrations; Work with product teams to make services cell-compatible.
Seniority
Intermediate, hands-on IC