Senior Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/d)

The role

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will raise the bar on building, running, and recovering systems. You will focus on eliminating toil, improving incident management, and observability, eventually growing into resilience architecture and chaos engineering.

What you will do

• Transform how the company responds to and learns from incidents.
• Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Build tools to eliminate toil.
• Establish SRE principles and patterns like circuit breakers and rate limiting.
• Validate system behavior under synthetic load and adversarial conditions.
• Design chaos experiments, redundancy patterns, and failover strategies.
• Embed SRE practices into product engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers.

Required qualifications

• Years in high-stakes environments (FinTech, payments, banking, trading, mission-critical SaaS).
• Hands-on expertise with SLOs, incident management, observability, automation, and eliminating toil.
• Deep understanding of resilience architecture and designing systems that fail gracefully.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, see projects through end-to-end and set technical direction.

Nice to have

• Investment Industry Fluency
• Experience with Golang, Kubernetes, GCP, Postgres, Kafka, or Datadog

Benefits

• €20,000 per year for AI tools
• 30 days of annual leave
• Sports benefits
• Confidential professional coaching
• Flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year
• One-month fully paid sabbatical after every 4 years
• Personal development budget
• Employee equity program
• Company-wide events such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and Holiday party

About the company

Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products through an easy to integrate Investment API. The company is backed by €280M in total funding and employs over 270 professionals.