Site Reliability Engineer (f/m/d) – Observability & Internal Tools

RTL Deutschland is a company that embraces remote work while prioritizing on-site collaboration when necessary. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead the observability and automation efforts, transforming these tools into a platform capability that enhances the engineering team's productivity.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Observability Stack: Take the lead on Prometheus, Grafana, and Forgejo. You won't just maintain them; you will evolve them into a world-class monitoring ecosystem
• Engineer for Reliability: Design actionable alerting and define SLOs that move us from reactive firefighting to proactive stability
• Champion Open Source: Evaluate and implement cutting-edge open-source alternatives to proprietary software. You decide what enters our stack and how it integrates
• Secure the Pipeline: Integrate security engineering directly into our delivery process. You find the vulnerabilities before the pen tests do
• Master the Metal: Navigate the depths of Linux systems and distributed tooling, balancing bold experimentation with rock-solid production stability

Requirements:

• Observability Expertise: You have a proven track record of implementing metrics, logs, and traces. You know how to turn noisy data into actionable insights
• Linux & Systems Engineering: You are comfortable in the terminal and understand how distributed systems communicate and fail
• Automation Mindset: You hate doing the same thing twice. You use code to automate infrastructure and eliminate toil
• Ownership Culture: You embrace the 'you build it, you run it' philosophy and take pride in the stability of the systems you touch
• Hands-on experience with GCP or AWS at a production scale
• Active contributions to the open-source community or a portfolio of self-hosted projects
• Experience in conducting blameless post-mortems and driving root-cause analysis