Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Berlin since 2000, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Role overview

Krüger Data's SRE team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. Remote within Germany. The team meets in Berlin once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Main duties

• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations

€108,000 - €141,000/year

Perks and benefits

• Company pension scheme
• Holiday pay
• Urban Sports Club membership
• Home office equipment
• Christmas bonus

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Krüger Data.