Senior SRE - Software Engineer - API Management

TomTom; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Personal development budget

Flexible work arrangements

Paid access to e-learning resources

Extra day off for birthday

Job summary

TomTom is seeking a skilled engineer for API Management in Amsterdam, focusing on enhancing customer experience through reliable systems. You will work on architecture, design, and implementation to improve service quality while managing cloud-native infrastructures and ensuring 99.9% availability. A competitive compensation package, personal development budget, and flexible work arrangements are offered, enabling work-life balance alongside professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes on public cloud platforms.
• Familiar with Azure or AWS.
• Experience with SRE best practices and observability.

Responsibilities

• Scale systems and increase reliability in a diverse environment.
• Work on the architecture, design, and implementation of systems.
• Ensure mission critical systems have 99.9+% availability.

Skills

Cloud-native infrastructure

Kubernetes

Public cloud platforms (AKS/EKS)

Infrastructure-related languages

CI/CD technologies

GitOps practices

SRE best practices

Unix/Linux systems

Education

MSc in computer engineering or equivalent

Job description

API Management; we are responsible for managing the front door (API management system) for TomTom’s online products and hence are key to customer experience. We drive improving the quality of the service and aim to enable self-service for our users by system engineering and software development.

What you’ll do:

• You will scale systems and increase their reliability in a diverse environment.
• You will support navigation tooling in the world.
• You will work on the architecture, design, and implementation of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, efficiency and scalability.
• You will ensure the mission critical systems have 99.9+% availability and reliability.
• You will be part of Incident Management and will improve the TTR.

What you’ll need:

• Experience in cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes on public cloud platforms (AKS and/or EKS) and related technologies and tooling for cloud runtime platforms and end-to-end delivery (packaging, service mesh, ingress, identity, and access management).
• Familiar with at least one public cloud platform, preferably Azure or AWS.
• Experienced in infrastructure-related and product engineering languages.
• Strong architecture skills.
• CI/CD technologies, including source code management (GitHub), pipelines, secrets, artefacts.
• GitOps practices and infrastructure automation, including infrastructure as code.
• Experience with SRE best practices, observability, incident management and SLIs.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, technology, engineering, and operations (CNCF).
• Security, privacy, and compliance essentials.
• Good understanding on Unix/Linux systems and internal.

General skills and experience:

• Experience on working in production-grade platform related teams (Cloud, Infrastructure, SRE).
• Extensive experience in high-availability solutions (99.9+ availability and reliability).
• Experience on building and operating mission critical systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• MSc in computer engineering or equivalent desirable.

What we offer

A competitive compensation package, of course.

Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.

Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.

Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.

Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.

Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.

Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.

Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.

Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.

Meet your team

We're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.

At TomTom...

You’ll help people find their way in the world.