Site Reliability Engineer

About Codesphere

Codesphere is a Virtual Cloud Provider from Germany building the future of sovereign cloud infrastructure. Our platform gives enterprises and governments full sovereignty without giving up modern cloud capability – a vision recently validated by a series of multi-million European government tenders.

Since our founding in Karlsruhe in 2020, we’ve expanded into an international team of 60+ experts. Based in Karlsruhe and Munich and backed by top-tier investors, we are chasing a bold vision.

We’re scaling fast and would love for you to join us and grow alongside us 🚀

What you'll drive

• You define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs across production

• You monitor system health, plan capacity, and automate deployments, patching, and infrastructure provisioning

• You diagnose and resolve production incidents fast – including 24/7 on-call participation

• You lead post-mortems and turn findings into prevention; maintain runbooks and escalation procedures

• You manage cloud infrastructure via IaC and own CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance

• You drive scalability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and security compliance

• You partner with Dev teams on production readiness, Shift Left practices, and error budget management

What makes you a great fit

• Proven experience in an SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering role with hands-on production ownership

• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible

• Familiarity with Ceph or comparable distributed storage systems

• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and CI/CD pipeline design

• Degree in a relevant field or comparable qualification

• Calm, structured, and fast under pressure – strong debugging and incident response skills

• Good communicator, able to translate operational concerns into guidance for Dev teams

• Go development experience is a plus

What's in it for you

• 32 days of paid time off – 30 regular vacation days plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off

• Meal allowance – up to 15 digital vouchers per month, adding up to over €100 net for you

• Flexibility – hybrid work setup with mobile work options and flexibility around core hours

• Steep learning curve – fast-moving environment, real ownership, and a front-row seat to scaling a company

• Job-Rad – lease a bike through us, tax-free

• Gym access – stay active on site (Karlsruhe office only)

• Employee events – from team offsites to regular get-togethers

• Company pension scheme – company-supported pension to set you up for later

• Great public transport links – both offices are within walking distance of tram and metro stops