Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Berlin
Doctolib is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its engineering team in Berlin, Berlin. In this senior-level engineering role requiring a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience, you will join the SRE team dedicated to platform reliability within Platform Engineering. Your mission is to ensure the platform remains reliable, scalable, and resilient at a European scale across infrastructure, observability, and cross-cutting reliability initiatives, supporting over 170 applications, 520,000 health professionals, and 90 million patients.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code at scale with Terraform.
- Identify and lead large-scale cross-cutting reliability initiatives, including incident detection, response, and postmortem analysis.
- Design, build, and improve infrastructure components supporting reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across multiple product teams.
- Take part in the on-call rotation and improve the on-call experience by reducing noise and ensuring actionable telemetry.
- Partner with software engineering teams to embed reliability practices early in the development lifecycle.
Candidate Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role within a large-scale, multi-team production environment.
- Proven experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, with Kubernetes being a must.
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams to co-design reliable systems and apply infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Experience managing on-call rotations, leading incident response in high-stakes environments, and utilizing GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD and Helm.
- Comfortable with at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Go, or Ruby, for automation.
- Fluent in English. Additional background implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, or working in regulated environments like healthcare and fintech, is considered a plus.
Benefits and Perks
This position offers a market competitive salary alongside specific company benefits. Doctolib provides a fully paid Deutschlandticket for Germany-wide public transit, 28 vacation days that increase by one day per full calendar year up to 30 days, the ability to work from abroad for up to 10 days per year, and company health insurance.