Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the availability, reliability, and performance of core backend infrastructure across both Windows and Linux environments.

• Enhance observability through the use of Kibana, CloudWatch, centralized logging, and custom telemetry; proactively identify monitoring gaps before incidents occur.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code utilizing Terraform and Ansible.

• Acquire knowledge and manage production Windows environments, including .NET Framework/.NET Core applications hosted on IIS.

• Gain expertise in SQL Server, focusing on AlwaysOn and Service Broker, in addition to PostgreSQL and Aurora.

• Manage cloud-native services and workloads across AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenStack, and containers.

• Engage in an on-call rotation, troubleshoot incidents, and contribute to effective postmortems and preventive measures.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance deployment safety, system resilience, and operational procedures.

• Proactively identify issues, automate repetitive tasks, and drive enhancements without awaiting direction.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or WebOps supporting production SaaS systems.

• Strong practical experience with Terraform and Ansible for managing infrastructure.

• Experience with AWS operations, including services like Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar), including query optimization, replication, backups, recovery, and high availability.

• Familiarity with operating and troubleshooting containerized and distributed systems in a production environment.

• Strong skills in Linux systems administration.

• Ability to script and automate tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell (PowerShell can be learned on the job).

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of Redis, Kibana, Elasticsearch, and centralized logging.

• Exceptional incident response, troubleshooting, and communication abilities.

• Proven track record of ownership, curiosity, self-directed learning, and a commitment to proactively improving systems.

• Must be available to work during US business hours and participate in an on-call rotation.

• Preferred: Experience with Windows Server, IIS, and .NET applications.

• Preferred: Experience with SQL Server, particularly with AlwaysOn and Service Broker.

• Preferred: Engagement in personal technology projects, home labs, open-source contributions, or independently developed tools.

• Preferred: Willingness to gain deep familiarity with the Windows and SQL Server stack through independent learning and hands-on practice within the first six months.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.

• Fully remote work setup.