Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Germany (Remote) Contract: Fixed-term (12 months)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain observability platform components and integrations using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and streaming telemetry systems.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design of scalable monitoring solutions on Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native environments.
• Implement standardized instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (SDKs, collectors, exporters, agents).
• Build and optimize telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Collector, Kafka/streaming pipelines, and time-series backends.
• Create advanced PromQL queries, recording rules, and Alertmanager logic for complex monitoring scenarios.
• Develop reusable Grafana dashboards and visualization templates (and Perses if applicable).
• Automate deployments/config with Git, GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Troubleshoot and optimize performance across collectors, exporters, storage backends, and query layers.
• Support performance testing, load validation, and reliability analysis of observability components.
• Collaborate with engineering/SRE teams to onboard services and improve telemetry coverage.
• Document implementations, standards, and operational procedures.

Requirements

• Strong programming experience in Go, Python, or Java (backend/platform focus).
• Hands-on experience with the Prometheus ecosystem (Prometheus, Alertmanager, exporters, Pushgateway) and PromQL.
• Experience implementing OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collectors, processors, and pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, Helm, and microservices architecture.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Argo CD.
• Understanding of distributed systems, performance tuning, debugging, and profiling.
• Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and time-series databases.
• Experience building/integrating REST/gRPC APIs.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, Bash/Python scripting, and automation frameworks.
• Understanding of SNMP/exporters and infrastructure/device telemetry collection.
• Awareness of security topics such as RBAC, secret management, and compliance requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Thanos and Perses (if applicable) for observability workflows.