Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | Germany | Remote

Requirements:

• 8+ years engineering experience, 4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering. Strong preference for those with formal customer reliability engineering experience.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
• Strong experience with technical leadership, leading a team through projects, mentoring other engineers on the team and serving as a force-multiplier
• Experience operating multi-tenant systems in production
• Strong experience designing and implementing SLOs
• Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, etc)
• Experience with Linux operating systems internals, and some knowledge of networking, cloud storage, and scaling.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with calmly and actively participating in blame-free Incident Response, following up on actions, and writing high quality PIRs (Post Incident Reviews, a.k.a. post-mortem documents)
• Ability to reason about performance, scaling, and failure modes
• Comfortable working within an engineering team where individuals are encouraged to have a strong sense of autonomy and self-direction.
• Ability to partner deeply with product engineering teams
• We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and who are also kind (this is important!)

What you'll be doing:

• Regular 1:1s with your manager and colleagues
• Reviewing and creating SLOs, proactively investigating ways to reduce budget burn for those SLOs
• Improving observability of customers within their environments
• Designing and implementing solutions for reliability and scalability
• Developing fault-tolerant design patterns
• Collaborating with Engineering Leaders to define product strategy, roadmaps, and technical designs
• Participating in PR review and collaborating with other engineers
• Teaching others about Site Reliability Engineering and communicating best practices
• Participating in Incident Response, investigation through resolution, PIR, and communication with customers

Perks and Benefits:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization
• Transparent Communication
• Innovation-Driven
• Open Source Roots
• Empowered Teams
• Career Growth Pathways
• Approachable Leadership
• Passionate People
• In-Person onboarding
• Balance is Key
• Equal Opportunity Employer