SRE Platform Engineer - Observability & Reliability

smartclip Europe GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open-source culture

30 days leave plus holidays

Transit and bike benefits

Learning opportunities via conferences

Team meetups in Germany

Job summary

smartclip Europe GmbH is seeking an experienced Platform Reliability Engineer to own and evolve internal observability infrastructure, focusing on metrics, logs, and traces to deliver measurable reliability for engineering teams.

The role combines systems engineering with platform development, improving monitoring, defining SLIs/SLOs, and integrating secure, scalable workflows across production environments.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing metrics, logs, and traces to drive actionable insights.
• Strong Linux and systems engineering skills with terminal proficiency.
• Understanding of distributed systems communication and failure modes.
• Ability to design reliable monitoring, alerts, and SLIs/SLOs.
• Security engineering experience in development or release pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop the observability stack into a coherent monitoring platform.
• Create actionable alerts and define service-level objectives to detect and prevent issues.
• Evaluate and adopt open-source tools; guide technology choices.
• Build security checks into development and delivery workflows.
• Investigate Linux systems and distributed services while balancing experimentation with stability.

Skills

Telemetry

Linux

Distributed systems

Alerts & SLOs

Security in CI/CD

Collaboration & communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Forgejo

Job description

smartclip Europe GmbH is seeking an experienced Platform Reliability Engineer to own and evolve internal observability infrastructure, focusing on metrics, logs, and traces to deliver measurable reliability for engineering teams.

The role combines systems engineering with platform development, improving monitoring, defining SLIs/SLOs, and integrating secure, scalable workflows across production environments.