Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Rotterdam and several other countries. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

About the role

We need another Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Remote, open to candidates across the Netherlands. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Key responsibilities

• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

What you need

• 5+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.

Preferred

• Contributions to open source observability projects.
• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale.
• EBPF-based tooling.

Salary range: €9,400 - €11,000 per month

Benefits

• Pension scheme.
• 8% holiday allowance.
• Travel allowance.
• 30% ruling for eligible candidates.
• Training budget.
• Home office allowance.
• Bike plan.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Flexible.

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