Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

This isn't your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We're aiming to become Germany's second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe's #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).

We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers' products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

• Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users

• Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices

• Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)

• Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability

• Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve operational workflows and resilience

• Design smart alerts, improve observability, and drive better performance monitoring

• Lead incident response, including on-call, and drive improvement with blameless postmortems

• Build safer delivery methods and improve deployments with Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines

• Report directly to the CTO and act as the primary reliability leader in the company

• Linux, networking (TCP/IP), and distributed systems troubleshooting

• Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis

• Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, CI/CD best practices

• Observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK stack

• Nice-to-haves: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Datadog

• Be the first senior SRE hire with ownership of reliability across the entire platform

• Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up growing beyond 100 FTE

• Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges

• Gain autonomy while collaborating with strong product and engineering teams

• Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement

• An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems
• Strong in Linux, databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and networking fundamentals
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Datadog
• A self-starter who thrives in scaling environments and can work independently without PMs
• Pragmatic, able to balance prevention, maintenance, and firefighting when needed