Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, Networking

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, C, C++).
• 5 years of experience with networking (WAN, edge, routing protocols).
• 4 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• 4 years of experience leading projects involving multiple teams.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and to automate routine tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

What You'll Be Doing

• Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services from inception and design through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Perks and Benefits

• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• Germany: €156000 - €160000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.
• Lots of room for intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and openness with a culture promoting collaboration and self-direction.
• Support and mentorship needed to learn and grow in a blame-free environment.