Software Reliability Engineer

RE Partners; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

RE Partners is seeking experienced Software Reliability Engineers to evangelize continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. The role emphasizes practical DevOps and SRE practices, with roughly 70% coding and configuration work.

You will drive secure, reliable release processes across development teams, wrapping applications with tests and improving observability, logging, and exception handling. This hands-on role values autonomy and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience with TDD using multiple frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of automation testing approaches and AI-assisted outcomes.
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills.
• Understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability.
• Experienced with multiple CI/CD systems.
• Secure coding practices knowledge.
• Hands-on with Docker and OpenShift.
• Familiar with Gradle, Maven, and npm for build automation.
• Strong emphasis on hands-on engineering and cross-team impact.

Responsibilities

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams to enable safe and rapid release cadence.
• Wrap applications in well-designed tests, including smoke tests for deployments.
• Source and integrate test data, implement data masking in lower environments.
• Upgrade to supported runtimes (Java or NPM) and containerize applications where feasible.
• Upgrade open-source libraries to latest major versions and keep dependencies current.
• Implement continuous library updates using Renovate and improve code review processes.
• Ensure best-practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorization.
• Automate deployment processes, including database changes with Liquibase and installations with Ansible.
• Introduce standard observability patterns.
• Overhaul exception handling and logging.

Skills

TDD

Automation testing

JVM languages

TypeScript

CI/CD systems

Docker

OpenShift

Ansible

Gradle

Maven

NPM

Secure coding

Observability

AI coding

Problem solving

Cross-team impact

Tools

Gradle

Maven

NPM

Job description

We are seeking experienced, hands-on Software Reliability Engineers to act as evangelists for continuous integration, testing, and safe, automated deployments. This is a practical DevOps and SRE role for practitioners who lead by example to make change safe and easy for development teams. The position is roughly 70% coding and configuration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct targeted engagements with development teams facing challenges getting to safe and rapid release cadence, or struggling with vulnerability resolution.
• Wrapping the application in a suite of well-designed tests, most of which can run locally, including smoke tests to be run as part of the deployment process.
• Sourcing and integrating appropriate test data, implementing data masking in lower environments
• Upgrading to supported runtimes (generally Java or NPM).
• Containerizing applications where feasible.
• Upgrading open-source libraries to their latest available major versions (e.g., migrating from Spring 2). Upgrading to the latest version of all dependencies, whether installed software, libraries, internal code, base images or operating system. Implementing processes that allow us seamlessly to stay current
• Implementing continuous library updates using Renovate. o Introducing best practice source control and branch management o Improving code review processes
• Ensuring best practice security patterns, secrets management, authentication and authorisation
• Simplifying and automating application deployment processes, including automated database changes with Liquibase and installed software with Ansible.
• Introducing standard observability patterns.
• Overhauling exception handling and logging.

Required Qualifications :

• Several years of experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) using multiple test frameworks.
• Really excellent understanding of the different approaches to automation testing and an ability to choose the best approach and drive outcomes with AI support
• Proficiency in JVM languages and/or TypeScript.
• Highest quality coding skills
• An excellent understanding of safe practices for critical systems, including deployment architecture and observability
• At home with multiple continuous integration and deployment systems
• Excellent understanding of secure coding practices
• Competent with Docker and Openshift
• Actively embracing AI coding
• Comfortable with build automation tools such as Gradle, Maven, and npm.
• Competent with (RedHat ) Linux
• Spring framework skills are advantageous.
• Ansible skills are advantageous
• Strong emphasis on hands-on engineering, technical autonomy, problem solving, and cross-team impact

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.