Hybrid Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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• Job title: Staff Site Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Distributed Systems, Docker, Java, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Python, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Munich, Germany

About the role

• Senior Engineer responsible for building and scaling infrastructure at SaaS company Personio. Focused on improving reliability and performance of services for HR tech industry.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.