Site Reliability Engineer

Huxley; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Huxley is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join a platform team operating a large-scale NoSQL database environment that supports critical services for millions of users. The role spans software, platform, and reliability engineering, focusing on automation, IaC, observability, incident response, and cloud/hybrid deployments across AWS.

The candidate should have strong experience with Cassandra and Dynamo, AWS, Terraform, Python, and Java, and demonstrate collaborative problem-solving and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Cassandra and Dynamo in production.
• Hands-on AWS experience and Terraform knowledge.
• Programming experience in Python and Java.
• Understanding of SLI, SLO, and reliability engineering.
• Strong communication and collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale NoSQL database environments.
• Improve platform reliability through SLI/SLO-driven practices.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce toil.
• Design scalable solutions for distributed databases.
• Support database migrations, upgrades, modernization.
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems.
• Collaborate with software engineers and stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies for the platform.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaborative mindset

Reliability engineering principles

Incident response

Capacity planning

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

Python

Java

Job description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a platform team responsible for operating and evolving a large-scale NoSQL database environment that supports business-critical services used by millions of users worldwide.

This role sits at the intersection of Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Platform Engineering. You will work on reliability, scalability, automation, and modernization of distributed database systems, while helping reduce operational toil through software development and infrastructure automation.

The team owns the database platform end-to-end and is responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, capacity optimization, and operational excellence across both cloud and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale NoSQL database environments.
• Improve platform reliability through SLI/SLO-driven engineering practices.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce operational workload and manual processes.
• Design and implement scalable solutions for distributed database platforms.
• Support database migrations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders across the organization.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and propose improvements to the platform landscape.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with Cassandra and Dynamo
• Experience operating distributed database systems in production environments.
• Hands‑on AWS experience.
• Strong Terraform knowledge.
• Programming experience in Python and Java
• Understanding of SLI, SLO, SLA, and reliability engineering principles.
• Experience with automation, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch or DynamoDB is highly beneficial.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Details

• Start: Asap
• Duration: 12 months (+)
• Location: Amsterdam, hybride