Staff Site Reliability Engineer (100% remote-friendly within Spain)

Docplanner; A distancia; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading healthcare platform in Barcelona is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead impactful initiatives and enhance system reliability. The ideal candidate should possess a solid technical background in cloud infrastructure and SRE practices, with at least 4 years of experience. This position offers flexible work arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package, including private healthcare and wellness support.

Servicios

Flexible remuneration and benefits system

Share options after 6 months

Private healthcare plan

Access to gym facilities

Free English classes

Formación

• 4+ years of experience in SRE practices.
• Strong experience with observability and monitoring.
• Proven experience working in complex systems.

Responsabilidades

• Drive technical initiatives across the company.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for technical strategy.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance.

Conocimientos

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

SDLC process understanding

Experience with AWS

Kubernetes expertise

Incident management

Performance improvement

Relational database expertise

Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog)

Herramientas

DataDog

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Area of WorkJoin Docplanner’s mission-driven global tech community, spanning 13 countries with over 300 technology professionals. As part of our Site Reliability Engineering team in the Platform area, you'll help build and maintain robust systems that serve millions of patients and healthcare professionals every month. In this dynamic, multicultural, and collaborative environment, innovation, autonomy, and teamwork drive meaningful impact at one of the world’s leading healthcare platforms.

Platform as a ProductWe embrace the Platform as a Product approach, treating our internal platform as a user-centric, continuously evolving product that delivers real value. This focuses on reducing cognitive load, streamlining workflows, and aligning with business needs to accelerate innovation and improve developer experience and autonomy. We prioritize reliability by building resilient platforms that deliver high availability and performance, enabling our teams to innovate with confidence.

Role

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be empowered and accountable for driving impactful, complex, company-wide, and cross-area technical initiatives—ensuring robust, scalable solutions with exceptional operational standards. You will collaborate with the Engineering Manager and engineering teams across the tech organization, and report to the Head of Internal Platform / Engineering Director. You will contribute to the technical direction of the area and mentor technical leaders across teams.

We are committed to ownership, proactivity, continuous improvement, open feedback, and working efficiently towards our goals. This role provides an opportunity to actively contribute to the technical direction of the area and impact the entire organization.

At Docplanner Tech, our core stack features Elastic, Vault, MongoDB, MariaDB, Postgres, MSSQL, RabbitMQ, .NET, PHP, Go, Python, and modern JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js and React Native—all running on Kubernetes in AWS. Hands-on experience with several of these technologies is essential, as this role is deeply technical and process-oriented. Strong technical expertise, excellent communication, and a track record of shaping technical and process decisions are crucial to support and influence engineering teams effectively.

What you will be doing

• Lead and drive technical initiatives that impact company and area-level directions.
• Actively partner with your Engineering Manager counterpart and all engineering teams across the entire tech organization.
• Provide accountability for all the technical initiatives led.
• Work closely with the technical leaders of the area and the company to develop an effective technical strategy.
• Act as a reference for our Engineering teams on Reliability, Resiliency, High Availability, Scalability, Observability, Performance, and Incident Response.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching inside and outside the team.
• Actively participate in the incident response and management process.

Qualifications

You’re likely a great fit for this role if you

• Have a solid technical background related to cloud infrastructure and the full SDLC process.
• Can support and unblock engineering teams in complex technical discussions.
• Approach reliability initiatives with a lean, proactive, and value-driven mindset, balancing impact and sustainable development, with strong accountability for delivering high-quality solutions.
• Have strong experience with web applications and a holistic understanding of complex systems.
• Have strong relational database expertise.
• Have proven experience working with AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC.
• Have at least 4+ years of experience in SRE practices: observability and monitoring (preferably DataDog), incident management, performance and cost improvements, hands-on SLO implementation.
• Have experience in cross-team initiatives and creating buy-in for technical initiatives.
• Believe in continuous learning and improvement.
• Have experience not only designing/implementing/delivering high-quality and impactful solutions, but also guiding and mentoring less experienced engineers.

Additional Information

Compensation structure

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills. The range is broad to accommodate all levels of experience, with a career ladder shown to explain where your skills and impact fit within the company. Your salary will be 100% transparent.
• Flexible remuneration and benefits systemvia Flexoh, which includes restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings.
• Share options planafter 6 months of working with us.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona.
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible; most cases require only a couple of meetings weekly).
• Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier).
• 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays.
• Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary.

Health comes first

• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental).
• Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership with Wellhub.
• Access to iFeel, a platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling.

Keep growing with us

• Free English classes.

We promote equal opportunities in our hiring process and at work. If you require additional support in your recruitment process, please let us know. We are committed to diversity and inclusion.