Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer - Remote-First Lead

Contabo; United States; Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid with flexible hours

Workation across the EU

EGYM Wellpass

Corporate discounts program

30 days vacation + holidays off

Extra day off for social

Job summary

Contabo seeks a Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer to own core infrastructure services, including API gateways, storage, identity, and observability. You will design on-call runbooks, improve distributed tracing and dashboards, and advise across teams on shared infrastructure.

The role emphasizes pragmatic stability and knowledge sharing across a remote-first organization. You will work with Kong, Nginx Ingress, Ceph, Longhorn, Vault, Keycloak, Cloudflare, Prometheus, Grafana, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles with end-to-end responsibility.
• Hands-on storage (Ceph) and Kubernetes persistent storage (Longhorn).
• Experience with API gateways/ingress (Kong, Nginx Ingress).
• CDN/edge security, DDoS mitigation, WAF config (Cloudflare).
• Strong system-design fundamentals and trade-off judgment.
• Observability experience (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) desirable.
• Secrets/identity infra (Vault, Keycloak); on-call process drafting a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and establish an on-call process with runbooks.
• Mature observability: tracing, SLOs/SLIs, dashboards across the stack.
• Advise across teams on shared infrastructure services.
• Document knowledge and distribute it to prevent single points of failure.
• Evaluate aging components and decide fixes, replacements, or retirements.

Skills

SRE experience

English fluency

On-call design

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kong

Nginx Ingress

Ceph

Longhorn

Vault

Keycloak

Cloudflare

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Vault/Identity infra

Job description

Contabo seeks a Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer to own core infrastructure services, including API gateways, storage, identity, and observability. You will design on-call runbooks, improve distributed tracing and dashboards, and advise across teams on shared infrastructure.

The role emphasizes pragmatic stability and knowledge sharing across a remote-first organization. You will work with Kong, Nginx Ingress, Ceph, Longhorn, Vault, Keycloak, Cloudflare, Prometheus, Grafana, and