Staff Site Reliability Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Germany.

This is a fully remote opportunity for a highly experienced SRE leader to shape reliability across complex, AI-driven production environments. You will act as a senior technical authority, designing resilient infrastructure and establishing SRE practices that scale with rapid business growth. The role spans cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, CI/CD, data platforms, and machine learning systems. You’ll work across platform, product, data, and ML engineering teams to improve availability, performance, security, and operational efficiency. A key focus will be productionizing AI workloads, standardizing customer environments, and strengthening infrastructure for enterprise-scale deployments. You’ll tackle complex reliability challenges hands-on while influencing architecture and technology direction across engineering. The environment values ownership, technical excellence, automation, continuous improvement, and the ability to influence without relying on formal authority.

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Accountabilities

• Architect, deploy, operate, and continuously improve scalable, secure production environments, with a strong preference for AWS-based infrastructure.

• Lead reliability initiatives across multiple engineering streams and establish consistent SRE practices throughout the organization.

• Design, evolve, migrate, and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including production hardening and scaling.

• Establish and enforce robust Infrastructure-as-Code standards using Terraform or equivalent technologies.

• Define, implement, and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other reliability practices.

• Strengthen observability across applications, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems to improve visibility into system health and performance.

• Collaborate with product and data teams to incorporate product telemetry, model analytics, and operational data into reliability insights.

• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines across the complete software lifecycle, from build and testing through deployment and rollback.

• Improve release safety, deployment frequency, operational predictability, and adherence to service-level objectives.

• Lead incident response for complex, cross-system failures and drive thorough post-incident reviews and corrective actions.

• Reduce operational toil through automation, platform engineering, and improved tooling and processes.

• Design scalable processes and infrastructure for absorbing, standardizing, monitoring, and troubleshooting customer environments.

• Support and productionize ML workloads by implementing MLOps practices for model deployment, monitoring, and retraining workflows.

• Ensure infrastructure and operational practices meet enterprise-grade security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

• Mentor engineers, share best practices, and raise the overall reliability and engineering standards across teams.

• Collaborate with Staff Engineers and Architects to influence global product architecture and long-term technology strategy.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a closely related infrastructure role.

• Proven experience establishing or scaling SRE practices within high-growth, complex, or highly distributed technical environments.

• Deep expertise with AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure and modern cloud-native architectures.

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes, including migration, scaling, optimization, and security hardening.

• Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform or an equivalent technology.

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and optimizing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong knowledge of observability practices and tooling across distributed applications and infrastructure.

• Experience troubleshooting complex multi-tenant, customer-hosted, or enterprise environments.

• Experience supporting production data platforms and machine learning systems.

• Practical MLOps experience, including model deployment, monitoring, and operational lifecycle management.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resilience, fault tolerance, and failure modes.

• Ability to think across systems and understand the interactions between infrastructure, applications, data, and ML workloads.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering and business functions.

• Experience with large-scale global B2B or B2C products is desirable.

• Experience working with AI/ML, NLP, or LLM-based products is a strong advantage.

• Familiarity with integrating product analytics and model performance metrics into operational monitoring is beneficial.

• Experience operating in enterprise environments with stringent security, compliance, and regulatory requirements is preferred.

• Experience implementing regulatory controls within cloud infrastructure is a plus.

• Experience scaling infrastructure during periods of rapid growth is advantageous.

• Experience evaluating infrastructure tools, platforms, and vendors is desirable.

• Experience deploying and operating solutions within large enterprise customer accounts or VPCs is a strong plus.

• Strong problem-solving skills, high ownership, and accountability.

• Ability to anticipate failure modes, operate across multiple engineering streams, and influence technical decisions without formal authority.

• Continuous-learning mindset with a strong commitment to improving systems, processes, and engineering practices.

Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment.

• Fully remote position within European time zones.

• Opportunity to work on infrastructure supporting advanced AI and agent-based workloads.

• Significant technical ownership and influence over reliability practices and architecture.

• Opportunity to work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, distributed systems, data platforms, and ML operations.

• Exposure to complex enterprise environments and large-scale production deployments.

• Collaboration with highly experienced engineers, architects, product teams, and AI/ML specialists.

• Opportunity to shape reliability standards and technology strategy as the organization scales.

• Strong culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

• International and distributed working environment.

• Career growth and opportunities to expand technical leadership and organizational impact.

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