Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will enhance our internal tooling, optimize our observability strategy, integrate security measures, and implement innovative solutions using cutting-edge open-source technologies.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Remote in our day-to-day work. On-site when it matters.
- We work remote by default - focused, efficient, and with full ownership. For larger features, architectural decisions, and real brainstorming sessions, we come together in Berlin or Cologne - fast, hands-on, and without unnecessary meeting overhead.
- We use AI to accelerate - not to replace thinking.
- We design the system, steer the output, and take responsibility for what we ship.
- Fast where it makes sense. Careful where it matters.
- Take full ownership of smartclip's internal utility and platform tooling.
- Focus your energy on the intersection of observability, automation, and developer infrastructure.
- Don't just maintain existing systems - evolve them, research cutting-edge open-source alternatives, and implement them.
- Forget expensive enterprise SaaS. Invest in deep in-house expertise.
- Understand our systems end-to-end, maintain total flexibility, and contribute back to the open-source ecosystem we depend on.
- Build & Evolve: Operate and advance our observability stack (including Prometheus, Grafana, and Forgejo).
- Go Open Source First: Replace 'buy' decisions with robust 'build & maintain' strategies.
- Engineer the Platform: Design observability as a platform capability. Define SLOs and create actionable alerting to stop incidents before they start.
- Secure the Stack: Embed security engineering into the delivery process. Find vulnerabilities before the pen tests do.
- Master the Infrastructure: Navigate Linux systems and distributed tooling. Balance bold exploration with production stability.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Sei motiviert durch systemisches Denken und eine tiefgehende technische Neugier.
- Stop being a consumer - start being a builder.
- Must-haves: Apply an Observability Mindset: Implement a clear strategy for metrics, logs, and traces. Transform 'noisy alerts' into 'actionable insights.'
- Embrace Ownership: Live the 'you build it, you run it' philosophy. Stop the ticket ping-pong and end the excuses.
- Nice-to-haves: Design and evolve production-grade setups on GCP or AWS.
- Show us your contributions to open-source projects.
- Turn your passion for root-cause analysis into blameless post-mortems.
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What we offer
- Ownership over tickets: You're trusted with real responsibility, not just tasks. No unnecessary bureaucracy, no micromanagement - we rely on you to take things forward.
- Build > Talk: We test what works - not what sounds good. Fail fast, learn faster.
- High standards, low ego: We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. Direct feedback, honest collaboration, no drama.
- Stay sharp: Hackathons, conferences, community - we invest in your growth and keep you at the cutting edge.
- Remote flexibility. In person, when it matters.: You work flexibly remote, with a connection to our Berlin or Cologne locations, where our TV Labs are and we experiment, build, and learn together.
- And yes - the fundamentals are covered too: 30 days of vacation + Dec 24 & 31 off, Smart Fridays (4 days week possible), mobility (Germany ticket & JobRad), sports & health offerings, mental health support, corporate benefits, RTL+ access, and more.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Food & Drink
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Smartclip
With our cutting-edge technology, smartclip is shaping the future of video advertising. We empower brands with true cross-screen storytelling on all devices — and enable publishers to monetise their content in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Site Reliability Engineer - Observability & Internal Tools
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
