Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Doghouse Recruitment; Brussel; Remote; EUR 84,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability for a bare metal Linux/Kubernetes environment across Europe. The role emphasizes reducing incidents, defining SLIs/SLOs, and shipping safe, observable changes in a high-performance infra stack.

The ideal candidate has deep Linux performance and networking expertise, strong Python/Go coding skills, Terraform/Docker/Helm experience, and on-call readiness. Remote EU with global collaboration.

Qualifications

• Extensive production engineering in bare metal or data centre environments.
• Hands-on Linux performance, debugging and kernel behavior.
• Solid networking knowledge (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, loss).
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm and modern CI/CD.
• Strong coding skills in Python and/or Go beyond automation.
• Experience in low latency environments.

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability end-to-end including SLIs/SLOs.
• Lead error budget conversations and drive incident reduction.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve deploy safety.
• Improve observability and long-term system latency.
• Work close to the metal across Kubernetes internals and Linux performance.

Skills

Linux performance debugging

Networking

Python/Go coding

On-call experience

CI/CD practices

Low latency environments

Production engineering

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Helm

Kubernetes

Job description

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Bare Metal Linux | Kubernetes | Python / Go | Remote EU

Our client is building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy AI workloads. They operate large-scale infrastructure where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not "handled".

We are seeking a Senior or Staff SRE who will own production reliability end-to-end for our client: define SLIs/SLOs, run error budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You will build automation to kill toil, improve deployment safety (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise.

This is a bare-metal environment: think Linux, data centres, physical fleets and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You will work close to the metal across Kubernetes internals (scheduling, autoscaling behaviour, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane), Linux performance (CPU/memory/IO contention), and network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion). On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it.

You will sit in our client's Hardware Infrastructure team and report to a team lead in Europe. They are adding nine SREs to the infrastructure organisation this year, seven in Europe and two in the US.

Must requirements

• Extensive Production Engineering experience running bare metal / on-prem / data centre infrastructure (not public cloud only)
• Deep hands-on expertise in Linux systems debugging and performance (CPU, memory, IO, kernel-level behaviours)
• Strong understanding of networking (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting under load)
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm and modern CI/CD practices
• Strong coding skills in Python and/or Go, beyond automation scripting. Real engineering capability is a must
• Experience in low latency environments

If you are looking for complexity and a new place to nerd out on infrastructure optimisation, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Europe - 100% Remote.

Total compensation: up to €140.000,- depending on experience