Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Join GitLab as an Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer focused on cloud cost utilization. You’ll work cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, and Product to improve cloud usage tracking, cost attribution, and ongoing optimization.

Key Missions / Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, and Product to improve cloud usage tracking and optimization.
• Design and maintain cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies across GCP and AWS for accurate cost attribution.
• Develop tooling and pipelines to ingest, normalize, and report on cloud billing data, leveraging the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification.

Profile / Requirements

• Experience designing or implementing cloud resource tagging/labeling strategies and driving adoption across teams.
• Familiarity with observability tooling, including Grafana, and an understanding of linking reliability and cost signals.
• Ability to work self-directed in a fully remote and asynchronous environment.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Ansible.
• Hands-on experience in cloud cost management on GCP and/or AWS, including billing data, pricing models, and optimization approaches.
• Familiarity with (or strong interest in adopting) FinOps FOCUS for multi-cloud cost analysis.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical cost data to non-engineering audiences.
• Comfort partnering across technical and business functions (Engineering, Finance, stakeholders).

Nice-to-Haves

• Interest in the FinOps ecosystem (FinOps FOCUS / Open Cost and Usage Specification).