Beacon Biosignals is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure our user-facing services and production systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient. In the Environment Automation specialization, you will operate and automate hundreds of GitLab environments from provisioning to day-to-day maintenance.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement automation to provision and manage hundreds of isolated GitLab environments using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
- Troubleshoot issues across Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, and GitLab applications to identify root causes of failed deployments, crash loops, and scheduling conflicts.
- Replace manual workflows with infrastructure-as-code solutions for automated version upgrades, configuration rollouts, and provisioning pipelines.
- Build observability systems using tools like Prometheus, ELK, and Grafana to detect bottlenecks, predict usage trends, and optimize resource consumption.
- Lead incident response and postmortem efforts, applying technical depth to resolve issues and establish operational standards.
- Influence architectural decisions around automation, scalability, and operational excellence. Partner with engineering teams to improve automation, platform resilience, and production-readiness.
What We're Looking For
- Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot production workloads across multiple tenants or environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including workspace strategies, state management, and scalable automation patterns.
- Skilled at diagnosing deployment failures, interpreting pod logs, and debugging scheduling issues and rollback scenarios in Kubernetes production environments.
- Ability to read and debug code in Go and/or Ruby.
- Experience supporting infrastructure for many customers or environments simultaneously.
- Able to reason through complex systems and operational challenges. Brings on-call experience.
- Proven ability to work across teams and with internal or external customers to solve technical problems.
- Comfortable using GitLab as a daily tool for infrastructure automation, collaboration, and operational workflows.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Ansible and templating tools like Jsonnet.
Technical Stack
- Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, omnibus-gitlab
- GCP, AWS
- Prometheus, ELK, Grafana
- Go, Ruby, Jsonnet
Team & Environment
Part of the Dedicated team, focused on delivering a fully managed, single-tenant GitLab experience through the GitLab Dedicated platform.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $124,300—$266,400 USD
- 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
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates in the United States and operates in a global work mode.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
