About the role

Site Reliability Engineer at Personio focusing on automated infrastructure and collaboration across engineering teams. Shape the future of HR technology with meaningful impact and ownership.

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the full service lifecycle from initial design through deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
Prepare services for production by engaging in system design reviews, developing shared frameworks and platforms, planning capacity and conducting launch assessments.
Operate, monitor, and maintain live services, designing observability stacks and dashboards to track key metrics and improve operational insight.
Ensure sustainable scalability through automation, driving continuous evolution to increase reliability and delivery speed.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define SLOs, error budgets and ensure services are reliable, scalable and observable.
Lead incident management processes, including on-call rotations, managing outages, driving post-mortems and conducting root cause analysis.
Identify and reduce toil through process automation, creating playbooks and automated runbooks to reduce MTTR.
Define resilience strategies and implement chaos testing to proactively uncover weaknesses and validate recovery strategies.
Mentor, train and grow the community. Guide engineers across teams in reliability best practices and tooling.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using languages such as Kotlin/Java, Typescript, Python, and technologies like IaC, Docker, and Kubernetes.
2+ years’ experience as an SRE or similar role designing, operating, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems in agile environments.
Strong knowledge of modern application and infrastructure monitoring concepts (Datadog and/or AWS experience advantageous).
Systematic problem solving and debugging skills with a strong sense of ownership and bias towards establishing mechanisms which can scale across the entire company.
Excellent written, verbal, and documentation skills.
Collaborative team player, able to communicate effectively across disciplines.

Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day.
Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.
We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.