Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Who we are

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. We started in 2017 and have grown to about 31 people. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

What this job is

This is a new role. The team has doubled in size over the past year. We need another Associate Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Larkford Labs's operations team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. Remote position. Most of the team is in Munich, but nobody is required to come in. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In your first few months you will

• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.

What you bring

• 1+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.

Preferred qualifications

• EBPF-based tooling.
• CKA or CKS certification.

Benefits

• Virtual stock options.
• JobRad bike leasing.
• Holiday pay.
• Home office equipment.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Larkford Labs e.K..