Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Further enhance and optimize our cloud infrastructure on Azure and our Kubernetes clusters, which are designed for high throughput and maximum availability, to support Flip's swift global growth.

• Architect and implement zero-downtime deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery plans to ensure our platform remains operational 24/7.

• Advance our LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) to provide every team with necessary visibility, utilizing it to define and refine our SLOs.

• Create, develop, and enhance infrastructure as code using Pulumi in Go to reduce manual work and provide a self-service platform for engineering teams.

• Advocate for CI/CD best practices, incident management, post-mortem analysis, and improve developer experience throughout the entire engineering organization.

• Collaborate with your squad and engineering leadership to shape the platform's trajectory, focusing on scalable, high-throughput systems, cost efficiency, security posture, and compliance.

⛳️ Requirements

• You possess 1–3 years of practical experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Backend Engineer with a strong emphasis on infrastructure.

• Experience in operating and scaling cloud infrastructures (Azure, GCP, AWS).

• In-depth expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration within production settings.

• Practical experience with modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, ELK) and a comfort level in defining and managing SLOs and error budgets.

• Strong software development capabilities in Go (preferred, as our IaC operates on Pulumi in Go), Python, or Kotlin.

• Practical experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Pulumi, OpenTofu, Terraform) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef).

• A collaborative approach, excellent communication skills, and business-fluent English.

• Openness to participate in on-call rotations to maintain the reliability of our platform.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work mode: We are remote-first, providing you the flexibility to work from home while valuing the benefits of in-person collaboration. Depending on the role, you’ll participate in occasional team events, workshops, or meetings at our Berlin or Stuttgart offices, with ample notice provided. The exact balance will be discussed during your interview.

• Work-Life Balance: We don’t want you to feel tethered to your desk. To support this, we cover the costs of your E-Gym-Wellpass membership and offer job bike leasing.

• Celebrating success: Anticipate a team of highly motivated and dedicated individuals in a relaxed working environment.

• Be part of something bigger: You will play an active role in shaping Flip. Throughout your journey, you will contribute to the rapid growth of a young tech company while achieving your personal goals, with plenty of fun along the way.

• Happy to be a Flipster: Look forward to regular team events and culture days that foster our community as Flipsters.

• Working abroad: At Flip, you also have the opportunity to work abroad within the European Union. Let’s discuss remote work possibilities during the interview.