Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Fully Remote (Germany)

Permanent | Full-time

We are supporting a German technology company operating mission-critical, cloud-native platforms that serve internal engineering teams and external customers at scale.

The company treats reliability as a product feature, not an afterthought, and is now strengthening its platform team with a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who will take real ownership of stability, observability, and performance.

This is a fully remote role within Germany and requires professional German language skills.

The Role

As a Senior SRE, you will apply software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations challenges.

You will work closely with platform and development teams to ensure systems are:

• Highly available
• Observable end-to-end
• Performance under load
• Automated by default

This is not a ticket-based operations role. You will influence how reliability is designed, measured, and improved across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and improve system reliability, uptime, and performance
• Design and operate observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces)
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Conduct load testing, performance tuning, and capacity planning
• Reduce operational toil through automation and tooling
• Lead or contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews
• Collaborate closely with engineers to embed reliability-by-design

Technical Environment

• Kubernetes / OpenShift in production
• Docker & Helm for packaging and deployment
• Python or TypeScript for automation and tooling
• Modern monitoring and observability platforms
• Cloud-native and container-first architecture

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, or senior DevOps engineer
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of observability and incident management
• Automation mindset and comfort writing production-quality code
• Calm, methodical approach to problem-solving in live environments
• German language proficiency (spoken and written)

Why This Role Stands Out

• Fully remote (Germany)
• High ownership and technical influence
• Clear commitment to SRE best practices
• Engineering-driven culture with minimal bureaucracy
• Real-world scale and meaningful reliability challenges