Staff Site Reliability Engineer (x/f/m)

Who you are

Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Have extensive experience (8+ years) in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles within a large-scale, multi-team production environment
• Have proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Have strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, Kubernetes is a must, its deployment and scaling strategies ecosystem
• Have implemented and operated SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in production
• Have experience managing on-call rotations and leading incident response in high-stakes environments
• Have a strong systems engineering background with fluency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby)
• Have a proven ability to lead through influence: setting technical direction, driving consensus, and mentoring engineers across teams
• Are comfortable balancing long-term architecture work with fast, iterative improvements
• Have clear, concise communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to drive alignment in ambiguous environments
• Partner with feature teams to accelerate their production readiness, providing hands-on guidance on reliability best practices, launch reviews, and operational standards before go-live
• Are fluent in English

It would be fantastic if you:

• Have deep expertise in observability tooling and architecture (logging, tracing, metrics)
• Have experience designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines and working with developers to improve instrumentation quality
• Appreciate working in regulated environments, healthcare, fintech, or similar; at Doctolib, data privacy and compliance are part of every engineering decision
• Care about reliability enablement, golden paths, runbooks, shared libraries

Life at Doctolib Tech

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.
• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals.

What we offer

• A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib
• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz
• Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)
• The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much more
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club
• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode
• Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

Our interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• System Design Interview
• Technical SRE Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• At least one reference check

Job details

• Permanent position
• Tech stack: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS / GCP, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, ArgoCD
• Full-time
• Berlin, Germany
• Hybrid work setup (up to 2 remote days per week)
• Start date: as soon as possible