21 hours ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Transform incident response and learning through runbooks and a post-mortem culture.
- Establish SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets as shared engineering standards.
- Build automation and tools to eliminate operational toil.
- Define and implement resilient architecture patterns including circuit breakers, bulkheading, graceful degradation, and intelligent rate limiting.
- Validate system behavior under synthetic load and adversarial conditions.
- Design chaos experiments, redundancy patterns, and failover strategies.
- Partner with product engineering teams to embed SRE practices and mentor engineers.
- Set technical direction for reliability across the organisation.
Requirements
- Deep SRE experience in high-stakes environments such as fintech, payments, banking, trading, or mission-critical SaaS.
- Hands-on expertise with SLOs, incident management, observability, automation, and toil elimination.
- Deep understanding of resilience architecture and graceful failure design.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence without authority.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, deliver projects end to end, and set technical direction.
- Investment-industry fluency is preferred.
- Experience with Golang, Kubernetes, GCP, Postgres, Kafka, or Datadog is preferred.
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave, sports benefits, confidential professional coaching, and the option to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days per year.
- A one-month fully paid sabbatical after every four years at Upvest.
- Personal development budget and flexibility in how it is used.
- Hybrid or remote work from Berlin, London, Tallinn, or elsewhere in Europe depending on the role, with home-office and office-work flexibility.
- Access to company-provided AI tools and participation in an employee equity program.
- Company events, dinners, offsites, and holiday celebrations.
- Inclusive employee resource groups and an equal-opportunity workplace.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Upvest
Upvest provides an Investment API that enables fintechs, banks, and platforms to embed brokerage, custody, and investment products, with regulatory licenses included. Its B2B infrastructure powers investing features for customers such as DKB, Revolut, N26, and Raisin. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, the privately held company serves clients across Europe.