Site Reliability Engineer (all genders)

Permanent contract, full-time or part-time, Remote or Cologne / Darmstadt / Düsseldorf

We operate the international of Kaufland: Several thousand sellers and millions of products make us one of the fastest growing online marketplaces. Ours is a dynamic corporate culture that merges a start-up mentality with the opportunities offered by a large corporation. We combine knowledge and many years of experience in e-commerce with flat hierarchies and a highly motivated team.

We love flexibility! We offer you the best environment to work in a flexible and focussed way: You get to decide whether you want to work in one of our offices in Cologne // Darmstadt // Düsseldorf, but also have the opportunity to work up to 100% remotely (within Germany). We want to offer you the most attractive workplace in e-commerce and maximum flexibility for your personal work-life balance.

Day by day, our development team of about 400 experts pursues the goal of creating the best possible customer shopping experience for our online marketplace. To enrich the lives of our customers, we collaborate in cross-functional teams. Learn about how they are structured and more details about our product areas here: .

• As a Software Engineer (all genders) with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering, your mission is to improve the quality of life of all developers and marketplace users by assisting teams to provide reliable and performant solutions
• You are working on core production applications and platforms: Your goal will be to ensure the product is always fast, available, scalable, and well-engineered to withstand unparalleled demand
• You are an integral part of our product development teams and are involved in the entire product lifecycle of their applications, making use of both infrastructure as well as software engineering expertise
• You help development teams take accountability for the reliability of our production assets - from designing resilient applications, to predicting and managing risks, to monitoring and operating the applications in production
• You work closely with our platform and infrastructure teams to ensure the balance between feature delivery speed and application availability
• You have a broad scope on a large variety of topics; whether it is about system design and architecture, internal platforms, deployment processes or monitoring topics, your involvement in both operational and strategic topics is invaluable

• You have experience in either software development or operations with a strong interest in observability and DevOps
• Having experience with concepts such as Practical Alerting, Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and Cloud Platforms is a plus
• You are familiar with Distributed System Design and Solutions (Kafka, Microservices)
• Having in-depth experience creating and operating software written in PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.JS) or Golang
• You must have extensive experience with Container Management and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)
• You are familiar with Linux
• You are familiar with SRE practices
• You have an investigator mindset when it comes to finding a root cause
• You possess strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and a desire to tackle complex problems
• You are excited about working with cloud native technologies and motivated to support colleagues on topics that improve our internal development lifecycle
• You are a strong team player and enjoy collaborating with different people and profiles as well as share knowledge and strive for continuous development and learning
• You have excellent communication skills, are willing to embrace our company culture and values and enjoy working in an international, English-speaking team

• Create your own work-life balance: Work at one of our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf or up to 100% remotely!
• Diversity and variety: An international environment with talents from over 65 different nations creates innovative and exciting perspectives
• Do you want to move to Germany? No problem – we offer you an attractive relocation package to give you a smooth start.
• Power meets dynamic: Flat hierarchies and start-up mentality meet the power of a big corporate group, providing you an agile and secure working environment
• Free choice of operating system: MacOS or Ubuntu Linux, it's up to you
• We are team players: Our strong bond extends beyond our own team: we stay connected thanks to our many internal offerings, such as our digital onboarding program, our all-hands meetings and regular team and company events
• Mental well-being: We support you with various initiatives on your personal and professional well-being journey!
• Boost your growth : Benefit from our online language learning offers, our various in-house training offers as well as our automated 360-degree feedback to boost your personal and professional growth
• The future is digital: Develop the e-commerce of the future with us and work on a product with millions of users
• ‘ Deutschlandticket ’: We subsidise your train season ticket for more mobility
• Urban Sports Club: Get top deals for fitness, team sports, yoga and more
• Personal & team growth: We love flexibility in terms of working location, but we also believe that personal interactions are important. That’s why we organise company events, and cover the costs to bring you there and to other (approved) get-togethers with your peers. The same applies to conferences and other learning opportunities. We want everybody to grow personally and professionally, as a team and as a company Check out our & our for even more insights into our company culture!
  

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion and ideology. We are signatories to the Charta der Vielfalt (German Diversity Charter) – because we know that extraordinary things can only be achieved with diversity.

You want to work for us, but not without your dearest colleague? Join us as a team and earn money by referring your buddy for one of our open Tech positions! Depending on the level we offer a bonus up to 1.300,- € per referral, which will be paid after successful recruitment (the first part with your first salary, the second part after your buddy passes the trial period).

Why are you the perfect fit for this position?
Don't bother with cover letters - we're interested in facts and figures!

How would you like to be addressed?
Feel free to add the following pronouns "she/her", "him/he" or "they/them" optionally (e.g. after your name) in your CV.

As we have very international teams, we would highly appreciate it to receive your CV or profile link in English.

Your contact person: Kristina Heymann
Kaufland e-commerce Services GmbH & Co. KG
Postal address:
Habsburgerring 2
50674 Köln

We operate Kaufland’s international online marketplaces. Behind the scenes you’ll find a team more than 850 strong, made up of international, inspired, intelligent minds. We work remotely within Germany, as well as in-person at our locations in Cologne, Darmstadt, and Düsseldorf. Our goal? Keep improving our customers’ digital shopping experience every day.

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