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Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps
€80k – €190k/yr Berlin, DE on-site full time senior 11d ago
About this role
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
AT ALMEDIA, YOU’LL:
- Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
- Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
- Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
- Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER / DEVOPS
(€80K – €190K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus)
ABOUT YOU:
- Full-stack SRE/DevOps with experience in server configuration
- Expert in Linux, high-traffic systems, real scale
- Manage Cloud and bare metal, databases, networking, distributed systems
- On-call owner, self-starter, bring end-to-end initiatives, automate
YOUR MISSION IS TO
- Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 70M+ users
- Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)
- Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability
- Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable
YOUR IMPACT
- Partner with engineering teams to eliminate bottlenecks and build resilient systems from the ground up
- Design intelligent alerting and observability that catches problems before users ever notice
- Own incident response end-to-end, on-call, fast resolution, and blameless postmortems that actually prevent recurrence
- Harden the delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and GitLab, safer, faster deployments
YOUR TOOLKIT
- Linux, TCP/IP, and distributed systems
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
- Kubernetes, GitLab, CI/CD
- Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry
- Nice to have: Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, DBA
WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE EXCITING
- Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up
- Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
- Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement
WHY ALMEDIA?
- Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
- Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
- Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
- Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
- We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.
We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.