Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Almedia; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading tech startup in Berlin is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to take ownership of uptime and reliability for their platform, serving over 50 million users. This role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams, building monitoring systems, and improving CI/CD practices. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with Linux, databases, Docker, and Kubernetes. Equity options, transport subsidies, and a modern office in central Berlin are among the attractive benefits offered.

Leistungen

Equity options for Berlin-based employees

Transport subsidy

Breakfasts and lunches

Language learning programs

Urban Sports Club membership

Qualifikationen

• An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems.
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

Aufgaben

• Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users.
• Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
• Partner with engineers across teams to improve infrastructure and reliability.

Kenntnisse

Linux

Database management (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis)

Networking fundamentals

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools (Datadog)

Tools

GitLab pipelines

OpenTelemetry

ELK stack

Terraform

Ansible

GCP

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).

We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 60 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:

• Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
• Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
• Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
• Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
  

Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

📍 Berlin (preferred) or Remote

About you

• An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems
• Strong in Linux, databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and networking fundamentals
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Datadog
• A self-starter who thrives in scaling environments and can work independently without PMs
• Pragmatic, able to balance prevention, maintenance, and firefighting when needed

Your mission is to

• Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users
• Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)
• Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability
• Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable

Your impact

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve operational workflows and resilience
• Design smart alerts, improve observability, and drive better performance monitoring
• Lead incident response, including on-call, and drive improvement with blameless postmortems
• Build safer delivery methods and improve deployments with Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines
• Report directly to the CTO and act as the primary reliability leader in the company

Your toolkit

• Linux, networking (TCP/IP), and distributed systems troubleshooting
• Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
• Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, CI/CD best practices
• Observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK stack
• Nice-to-haves: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Datadog

What makes this role exciting

• Be the first senior SRE hire with ownership of reliability across the entire platform
• Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up growing beyond 100 FTE
• Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
• Gain autonomy while collaborating with strong product and engineering teams
• Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement

Why Almedia?

• Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
• Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
• Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
• Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
• We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.