SRE / DevOps Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Enhance the deployment process for our newly developed system.

• Eliminate operational bottlenecks that hinder engineering and feature deployment.

• Fortify our AWS production environment, which is currently built on ECS and containers.

• Optimize our GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.

• Collaborate with Terraform / OpenTofu to enhance infrastructure security, clarity, and ease of modification.

• Improve debugging capabilities in production across AWS, containers, networking, Linux, and application-level challenges.

• Advance our observability in the three key areas: metrics, logs, and traces.

• Develop or refine runbooks, repository instructions, service maps, deployment guides, and operational documentation.

• Implement agentic engineering workflows that assist engineers in diagnosing issues, proposing solutions, and validating changes prior to production deployment.

• Create safety guardrails for agent-assisted tasks: covering permissions, approval processes, audit trails, sandboxing, rollback protocols, and human review.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or production operations.

• Experience in a production AWS environment.

• Familiarity with ECS and containerized services.

• Proficiency in GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Terraform and/or OpenTofu.

• Knowledge of CI/CD, Linux, networking, and production debugging.

• Strong capabilities in observability across metrics, logs, and traces.

• Competence in writing production-quality code or scripts using TypeScript and Bash.

• Ability to read and modify infrastructure, CI/CD, and application code.

• Sound judgment regarding production risks, automation, permissions, and rollback strategies.

• Kubernetes experience is a plus.

• Proficiency in Ruby is advantageous.

• Experience in developing internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.

• Familiarity with coding agents, AI-assisted engineering workflows, repository-level agent instructions, evaluations, or agent guardrails.

• Background in enhancing incident response, deployment safety, or on-call quality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote & flexibility | Work from anywhere.

• Flexible working hours based on trust — no rigid schedules, but true ownership and autonomy.

• Room for impact | In your daily tasks, you will encounter a range of exciting challenges that promote a high level of ownership.

• Access to appealing corporate benefits, including a company pension plan.

• Company fitness | We care about the health and well-being of our employees. Through our partner EGYM Wellpass, you gain access to over 6,300 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools, as well as CrossFit and bouldering gyms throughout Germany and Austria.

• Team events | Remote work does not equate to isolation. Several times a year, we gather in various locations for genuine exchange, team building, and meaningful connection.