Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid work setup with up to 2 remote days per week. Work from abroad is available for up to 10 days per year through the flexibility days policy.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud-native digital healthcare solutions for patients and health professionals across multiple countries and healthcare specialties.

What you will do

• Lead large-scale, cross-cutting reliability initiatives across infrastructure automation, observability, and incident management.
• Improve incident detection, response, postmortem analysis, alerting, telemetry, and the on-call experience.
• Define and evolve SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across multiple product teams.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers while setting reliability standards across the platform.
• Provide technical guidance in architectural reviews and platform discussions, and influence strategic decisions.
• Partner with software and feature engineering teams on reliability practices, launch reviews, and production readiness before go-live.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles within a large-scale, multi-team production environment.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration; Kubernetes is required, including its deployment and scaling ecosystem.
• Experience implementing and operating SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in production.
• Experience managing on-call rotations and leading incident response in high-stakes environments.
• Strong systems engineering background and fluency in at least one backend programming language, such as Go, Python, or Ruby.
• Ability to lead through influence by setting technical direction, driving consensus, and mentoring engineers across teams.
• Ability to balance long-term architecture work with fast, iterative improvements and communicate clearly in ambiguous environments.
• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in observability tooling and architecture, including logging, tracing, and metrics.
• Experience designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines and improving instrumentation quality with developers.
• Experience or interest in regulated environments, healthcare, fintech, or similar domains.
• Interest in reliability enablement, golden paths, runbooks, and shared libraries.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully cloud-native platform supporting web and mobile interfaces, multiple languages, and country- and specialty-specific healthcare requirements.
• Tech stack includes Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, React Native, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and ArgoCD.
• Hybrid and office-based workplace options, with flexibility support for caregivers and workers with disabilities.
• 28 vacation days plus one additional day per full calendar year, up to 30 days.
• Paid Deutschlandticket, supplementary health insurance, pension scheme with employer subsidy, parental leave support, mental health and coaching services, and subsidized sports membership.
• Relocation support for international mobility and access to AI coding tools and dedicated training.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview, system design interview, technical SRE interview, and behavioral interview.
• At least one reference check.