Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid & Cloud Automation

Qargo; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid work

Green office & initiatives

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Qargo is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Ghent team. You’ll apply software engineering principles to design, build, and automate reliable cloud-based infrastructures, with ownership over tooling and deployment systems.

You’ll collaborate with backend engineers to ensure scalable, observable platforms in production. The role blends backend engineering, infrastructure work, and problem-solving, offering significant impact, ownership, and growth opportunities in a fast-growing SaaS

Qualifications

• Software engineer with interest in infrastructure, scalability and reliability.
• Strong Python or backend language skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and serverless (Google Cloud preferred).
• Familiarity with distributed systems and scalability challenges.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Databases performance tuning (SQL/NoSQL) and monitoring/observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems and tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Improve software delivery cycle with automation and developer experience.
• Develop internal tools to reduce manual operational work.
• Improve observability with monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to design reliable architectures.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term fixes.
• Continuously improve infrastructure (IaC, automation).

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Infrastructure as Code

Backend engineering

Automation

Database tuning

Team collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

Firestore

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Qargo is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Ghent team. You’ll apply software engineering principles to design, build, and automate reliable cloud-based infrastructures, with ownership over tooling and deployment systems.

You’ll collaborate with backend engineers to ensure scalable, observable platforms in production. The role blends backend engineering, infrastructure work, and problem-solving, offering significant impact, ownership, and growth opportunities in a fast-growing SaaS