Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Staff Site Reliability Engineer joining the SRE team dedicated to platform reliability within Platform Engineering. Your mission will be to act as a technical leader driving Doctolib's reliability and scalability at a European scale, ensuring our platform remains reliable, debuggable, and resilient across infrastructure, observability, and cross-cutting reliability initiatives.

What you'll do

• Lead large-scale cross-cutting reliability initiatives across the platform, spanning infrastructure automation, observability, and incident management
• Identify and drive improvements to incident detection, response, and postmortem analysis capabilities
• Define and evolve SLOs, error budgets, and alerting standards across multiple product teams
• Take part in the on-call rotation, and actively contribute to improving our on-call experience by refining alerting, reducing noise, and ensuring actionable telemetry
• Serve as a mentor and technical coach to senior engineers, helping elevate the craft of reliability engineering across the company
• Influence strategic decisions by providing technical guidance to leadership and representing reliability engineering in architectural reviews and platform discussions
• Partner with software engineering teams to embed reliability practices early in the development lifecycle

What you'll need

• Extensive experience (8+ years) in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles within a large-scale, multi-team production environment
• Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, Kubernetes is a must, its deployment and scaling strategies ecosystem
• Implemented and operated SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in production
• Experience managing on-call rotations and leading incident response in high-stakes environments
• Strong systems engineering background with fluency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby)
• Proven ability to lead through influence: setting technical direction, driving consensus, and mentoring engineers across teams
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in observability tooling and architecture (logging, tracing, metrics)
• Experience designing and operating high-scale telemetry pipelines and working with developers to improve instrumentation quality
• Experience in regulated environments, healthcare, fintech, or similar
• Care about reliability enablement, golden paths, runbooks, shared libraries

What they offer

• Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid
• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to 30 days)
• Company health insurance with supplementary benefits through Allianz
• Company pension scheme (bAV) with 40% employer subsidy
• Free mental health and coaching services through Moka.care
• Flexible workplace policy offering hybrid and office-based modes