Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, Observability Infrastructure (Kubernetes)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hybrid workplace with two recommended office days per week, although exact attendance is agreed with the team.

Annual gross salary: €98,200–€132,800 EUR.

Company

hirify.global operates a second-hand marketplace, shipping network, and payments platform across Europe, connecting millions of members and supporting more than 2,000 employees.

What you will do

• Design and develop backend services, APIs, automation, and self-service capabilities for observability platforms.
• Build and operate reliable, scalable services and stateful workloads on Kubernetes.
• Develop infrastructure for metrics, logs, and tracing used by engineering teams.
• Evolve Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, and related observability platforms.
• Lead technical initiatives from design through deployment and production operation.
• Participate in the observability on-call rotation, currently approximately once every five to seven weeks.

Requirements

• Strong backend software engineering and system design skills, ideally with production experience in Go.
• Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services on Kubernetes.
• Ability to design maintainable distributed systems and own them throughout their production lifecycle.
• Understanding of reliability, scalability, monitoring, safe deployments, and failure recovery.
• Infrastructure operations or site reliability experience, or motivation to develop these skills and participate in on-call.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with clear technical communication and effective cross-team collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos, Elasticsearch, or other large-scale observability technologies.
• Experience with backend languages other than Go.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace model with team-agreed office days.
• 25 days of paid annual leave and a daily lunch allowance.
• Annual learning budget for courses, certifications, and workshops.
• Home office equipment support, including up to €540 for workplace furniture and a work-from-home allowance.
• Share options, flexible benefits budget, mental health support, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• MacBook equipment, bike leasing, mobility support, team-building events, and a dog-friendly office.