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Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Cost Utilization

GitLab
Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Remote (US)
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Cloud Cost Utilization SRE role at GitLab, an all-remote DevSecOps platform company. The role sits at the intersection of engineering and financial accountability, making cloud spending across AWS and GCP visible, understandable, and actionable. You partner with Engineering, Finance, and Product to improve how cloud usage is tracked, attributed, and optimized, building the systems, standards, and workflows that help teams understand the real cost of the services they run.

Stack

AnsibleAWSGCPGitLabGrafanaPrometheusTerraform

Responsibilities

  • ▹Design and maintain cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies across GCP and AWS to support accurate cost attribution
  • ▹Develop tooling and pipelines to ingest, normalize, and report on cloud billing data using the FinOps FOCUS specification
  • ▹Automate cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and alerting so engineering teams can respond quickly to changes in infrastructure spend
  • ▹Contribute to GitLab's observability and monitoring stacks, including Prometheus, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), and ELK, focusing on surfacing cost efficiency signals
  • ▹Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to support cloud cost forecasting for planning and budget discussions
  • ▹Act as a subject matter expert for cloud cost attribution, tagging strategy, and FOCUS adoption across GitLab Infrastructure
  • ▹Collaborate with Finance and Compliance teams on audits, certifications, and financial reporting needs related to cloud infrastructure usage
  • ▹Contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts, including Terraform and Ansible, so cost controls and tagging requirements are built into provisioning workflows from the start

Requirements

  • ▹Hands-on experience with cloud cost management in GCP and/or AWS, including billing data, pricing models, and optimization approaches
  • ▹Familiarity with, or interest in adopting, the FinOps FOCUS specification for multi-cloud cost analysis
  • ▹Experience designing or implementing cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies and improving adoption across teams
  • ▹Comfort working across technical and business functions, including Engineering, Finance, and other stakeholders
  • ▹Experience with infrastructure as code, including Terraform and Ansible
  • ▹Familiarity with observability tooling, including Grafana, and an understanding of how reliability and cost signals can be connected
  • ▹Ability to explain technical cost data clearly to non-engineering audiences and support informed decision-making
  • ▹A self-directed approach to work, with comfort operating in a fully remote and asynchronous environment

Soft skills

Systems thinkingCross-functional collaborationClear communication to non-technical audiencesSelf-directed, autonomous working styleComfort with technical and organizational ambiguity

What we offer

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