Senior SRE or DevOps Engineer (Networking)

Location: Frankfurt; hybrid work with 3 office days and 2 work-from-home days, plus work-from-anywhere options.

Company

An enterprise proxy platform providing self-service access to more than 80 million global IPs across 195 countries for large-scale web scraping, market research, and automated data collection.

What you will do

• Own and evolve production infrastructure across hundreds of servers and approximately 50 services.
• Lead the migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes in on-premises, bare-metal environments.
• Maintain high availability and improve observability in cooperation with backend engineers.
• Establish infrastructure-as-code practices and improve CI/CD pipeline reliability.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, lead infrastructure incident resolution, run post-mortems, and drive systematic remediation.
• Build platform tooling that improves developer experience and reduces infrastructure toil.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating highly available production infrastructure at the scale of hundreds of servers and dozens of services.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience in self-hosted or bare-metal environments.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and development skills.
• Experience leading at least one major infrastructure migration from planning through stabilisation.
• Familiarity with Python and/or Go, proxy or networking-heavy infrastructure, and edge clusters or split compute/edge architectures.
• Experience working in a small team where developers shared infrastructure responsibility.

Nice to have

• Backend experience with Python and edge-service experience with Go.
• Experience with proxy infrastructure and edge cluster architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with 3 office days and 2 work-from-home days, plus work-from-anywhere options.
• Internal and external learning resources, professional guilds, communities, and knowledge sharing.
• Yearly workation, internal and community events, and a team-building budget.
• Extra days off, private health insurance, and family-related time off.
• Access to office perks, the latest tools and gadgets, a 24/7 gym, physical well-being specialists, and psychologist or psychotherapist sessions.