Posted May 25, 2026
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in our Platform Squad, you'll own critical reliability domains end-to-end and drive the technical direction within the squad - leading architectural decisions on our platform, mentoring teammates, and continuously raising the reliability bar inside the team. This role is for an engineer with a proven track record of building and operating high-throughput, highly available systems, who wants senior-level technical ownership and real impact through deep engineering work inside a tight, well-scoped team. ---
We're looking for a hands-on, SaaS-minded senior Site Reliability Engineer who treats scalability and reliability as a first-class product concern. ### Must-Have Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Backend Engineer with a strong infrastructure focus. - Proven track record building and operating high-throughput, highly available systems in production. - Deep, production-level experience with Kubernetes on any Hyperscaler. - Strong experience with modern observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, Dash0, Loki, ELK) and a clear point of view on SLIs, SLOs and error budgets. - Solid software development skills in Go (strongly preferred, since our IaC runs on Pulumi in Go) or Python. - Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, OpenTofu, Terraform) and GitOps (e.g. ArgoCD) + CI/CD pipeline design. - Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure initiatives from design to production - including writing RFCs and driving architecture decisions within your team. - Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar within a team. - Comfortable owning major incidents end-to-end and turning learnings into systemic change. - Strong communication skills and business-fluent English. - Willingness to participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability of our platform. ### Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Rolled out production-ready API-Gateways with Gateway API (e.g. Envoy Gateway). - Operated multi-cluster service meshes (e.g. Cilium, Linkerd, Istio)
Deployed and maintained Kubernetes Operators (e.g. Strimzi, CNPG). - Operated highly available PostgreSQL in production. ### What we offer you
Work mode: We’re remote-first, giving you flexibility to work from home. At the same time, we deeply value the power of in-person collaboration. Depending on the role, you’ll join occasional team events, workshops, or meetings in our Berlin or Stuttgart offices - always with plenty of notice. The exact balance will be discussed during your interview. - Work-Life-Balance: We don't want you to grow roots to your desk chair. That's why we cover the costs of your E-Gym-Wellpass membership and offer job bike leasing. - Celebrating success: Expect highly motivated and committed people in a relaxed working atmosphere. - Be part of something bigger: You actively shape Flip in your role. Along the way, you are an enabler of the rapid growth process of a young tech company and grow towards your goals, fun is guaranteed. - Happy to be a Flipster: Stay tuned for regular team events and culture days that bring us together as Flipsters. - Working abroad: At Flip you can also work abroad in the European Union. Let's talk about remote work in the interview. At Flip, everyone is welcome - no matter what gender you identify as or how old you are. Sexual identity, origin, religion, world view and disabilities do not influence your potential job at Flip. The most important thing is that YOU fit in!
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