Staff Site Reliability Engineer (d/f/m)

Personio; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive rewards package

28 days paid vacation

Generous family leave

Mental health support

Weekly catered lunch

Job summary

Personio is seeking an experienced Engineer to design, build, operate, and scale our infrastructure in Dublin. This role requires 8+ years in SaaS software development and expertise in distributed systems using languages like Kotlin and Python. You'll collaborate with teams to ensure service reliability and scalability while engaging in incident management. The position offers 28 days of paid vacation, remote work flexibility, and an inclusive workplace culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SaaS software development.
• 2+ years as an SRE or similar role.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage in full service lifecycle from design to operation.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain live services.
• Mentor and guide engineers on reliability best practices.

Skills

SaaS software development

Distributed systems

Kotlin/Java, Typescript, Python

IaC, Docker, Kubernetes

Incident management

Monitoring concepts

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Datadog

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

The Role

This role requires 2 days a week in our Munich, Berlin or Dublin office.

Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

Personio is seeking an experienced Engineer to design, build, operate, monitor and scale our infrastructure through automated solutions. You’ll empower engineering teams by sharing cloud platform expertise, developing tools and establishing company wide mechanisms to ensure reliability, scalability and uptime. Our ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, working closely with other engineering teams to build, scale and enhance their applications on our platform.

What You’ll Do

• Engage in and improve the full service lifecycle from initial design through deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
• Prepare services for production by engaging in system design reviews, developing shared frameworks and platforms, planning capacity and conducting launch assessments.
• Operate, monitor, and maintain live services, designing observability stacks and dashboards to track key metrics and improve operational insight.
• Ensure sustainable scalability through automation, driving continuous evolution to increase reliability and delivery speed.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define SLOs, error budgets and ensure services are reliable, scalable and observable.
• Lead incident management processes, including on-call rotations, managing outages, driving post-mortems and conducting root cause analysis.
• Identify and reduce toil through process automation, creating playbooks and automated runbooks to reduce MTTR.
• Define resilience strategies and implement chaos testing to proactively uncover weaknesses and validate recovery strategies.
• Mentor, train and grow the community. Guide engineers across teams in reliability best practices and tooling.

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience with SaaS software development in distributed systems using languages such as Kotlin/Java, Typescript, Python, and technologies like IaC, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• 2+ years’ experience as an SRE or similar role designing, operating, analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems in agile environments.
• Strong knowledge of modern application and infrastructure monitoring concepts (Datadog and/or AWS experience advantageous).
• Systematic problem solving and debugging skills with a strong sense of ownership and bias towards establishing mechanisms which can scale across the entire company.
• Excellent written, verbal, and documentation skills.
• Collaborative team player, able to communicate effectively across disciplines.

Nice to Have/Bonus

• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions/GitOps tools)
• Experience tuning JVM-based services and Node.js runtimes
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS)

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you’ll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day.
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.
• We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There\'s also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.