Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Join our team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for designing monitoring and alerting standards, creating frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and championing incident response and reliability best practices. You will also design processes to improve resilience and reduce technical complexity, implement software and tooling to automate operations, and create monitoring dashboards. This position offers a range of benefits, including a learning and development budget, remote working allowance, and additional vacation days.

While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria

Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing monitoring and alerting standards, including frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Championing standards for incident response and reliability best practices, and designing processes to improve resilience.
• Implementing software and tooling to improve resilience and automate operations, and creating monitoring dashboards.
• Evaluate third-party tools and act as technical point of contact

Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Java, or Go

• Designing systems that automatically failover across different data centers
• Break down high-level architectural goals into small, deliverable tasks
• Expertise in tools like Chaos Mesh or Gremlin to proactively test system weaknesses

Understand the unique challenges of the financial sector

• Brings an agile mindset along with the drive to get things done and the self-reflection to keep improving
• Safely rolling out significant platform changes across the entire organization
• Experience in the analysis of capacity requirements and address exhaustion before it impacts SLOs
• Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent professional experience
• Expertise in Service Discovery / Service Mesh to manage microservice communications
• Business proficient English (written and verbal). German language is a plus
• Curious self-starter who combines openness and creativity with a structured, hands-on mentality
• 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
• You have spent 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles in a high-growth environment

Pay

EUR 75,000 - 95,000