Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Responsible for the design of monitoring and alerting standards, creating frameworks that implement key concepts like SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and championing standards for incident response and reliability best practices.

What You Will Do

Implement software and tooling to improve resilience and automate operations, create generic service and product specific monitoring dashboards, and break down high-level architectural goals into small, deliverable tasks.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We're looking for a curious self-starter who combines openness and creativity with a structured, hands-on mentality, and brings an agile mindset along with the drive to get things done and the self-reflection to keep improving.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles in a high-growth environment
• Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Java, or Go
• Expertise in Service Discovery / Service Mesh to manage microservice communications
• Experience in the analysis of capacity requirements and address exhaustion before it impacts SLOs
• Designing systems that automatically failover across different data centers
• Expertise in tools like Chaos Mesh or Gremlin to proactively test system weaknesses
• Designing infrastructure with a focus to limit the blast radius of any single failure
• Experience in the participation of a 24/7 on-call rotation
• Business proficient English (written and verbal). German language is a plus.

Benefits

• Home office budget
• Learning & development budget of €1000 per year
• Competitive salary
• Variable remuneration program
• Monthly meal allowance
• Deutschland ticket subsidy
• 28 vacation days
• Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year

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