Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The role

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will design monitoring and alerting standards and create frameworks for SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. You will implement software and tooling to improve resilience and automate operations.

What you will do

• Design monitoring and alerting standards
• Create frameworks that implement key concepts like SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
• Champion standards for incident response and reliability best practices
• Design processes that improve resilience and reduce technical complexity
• Implement software and tooling to improve resilience and automate operations
• Create generic service and product specific monitoring dashboards
• Break down high-level architectural goals into small, deliverable tasks
• Evaluate third-party tools and act as technical point of contact
• Safely roll out significant platform changes across the entire organization
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering roles in a high-growth environment
• Programming experience in Python, Ruby, Java, or Go
• Expertise in Service Discovery / Service Mesh to manage microservice communications
• Experience in the analysis of capacity requirements and address exhaustion before it impacts SLOs
• Designing systems that automatically failover across different data centers
• Expertise in tools like Chaos Mesh or Gremlin to proactively test system weaknesses
• Designing infrastructure with a focus to limit the blast radius of any single failure
• Understand the unique challenges of the financial sector
• Experience in the participation of a 24/7 on-call rotation
• Business proficient English (written and verbal)

Nice to have

• German language is a plus

Benefits

• Home office budget
• Learning & development budget of €1000 per year
• Transparent growth framework
• Competitive salary
• Variable remuneration program
• Monthly meal allowance
• Deutschland ticket subsidy
• 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years
• Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year

About the company

Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform. Headquartered in Berlin, it employs 300 people in Europe.