Site Reliability Engineer

How You Can Contribute To GridX
Please note:
This position requires on-site work or remote work from within Germany.

Do stuff that matters - Become a part of gridX and contribute your own part to digitalise the energy industry with us and thus make renewable energies accessible and affordable everywhere #getshitdone

At gridX, we are building the digital brain for the energy transition. We are looking for an engineer who wants their code to have a tangible impact on a sustainable future.

As part of the SRE Cloud Infrastructure team, you will join a culture defined by a single principle: "Reliability First" . However for us, reliability isn't about fixing broken things or keeping the lights on manually. It's about enablement. We engineer the automated, self-service solutions that empower our engineering teams to own their services from development to production.

You are a builder. An experienced, autonomous engineer who is ready to evolve our systems, engineer away complexity and champion a culture where reliability is built in by design.

• Take Ownership: You actively evolve our multi-tenant cloud and container infrastructure. You take end-to-end ownership of various components, ensuring they are secure, scalable, observable, and cost-efficient.
• Engineer Infrastructure as Software: You bring a developer's mindset to operations. You solve complexity by writing high-quality code and automation, ensuring our platform is managed strictly via declarative code.
• Drive Observability: You mature our observability platform, ensuring we aren't just collecting data but providing the insights teams need to drive architectural decisions, improve performance, and establish meaningful SLOs.
• Architect for Resilience: You proactively identify bottlenecks before they become incidents and, when things do break, you lead the resolution and drive post-mortems to ensure we learn.
• Empower Others: You build self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to own their full lifecycle. You also drive the adoption of best practices through code or architecture reviews and technical deep-dives and share your expertise through high-quality documentation and operational runbooks.

This Is How You And Your Application Stand Out

• You have solid experience in an SRE or Platform role, building and managing distributed systems in production environments. You are comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, navigating ambiguity and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
• You have strong hands-on experience with a major public cloud provider. You understand the architectural foundations of cloud infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Networking, and IAM) and are fluent in managing them as code.
• You apply a pragmatic software engineering mindset to operations. You write clean, maintainable code and scripts, prioritizing long-term stability and quality.
• You have operational experience with Kubernetes at scale, understanding how to manage upgrades, security and resource allocation in a production cluster.
• You embody a "Reliability First" mindset, understanding incident lifecycle management and the importance of psychological safety in engineering.

What Sets You Apart

• You have hands-on expertise in the AWS services we use heavily, such as EKS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, DynamoDB, SNS and SQS.
• You go beyond usage and understand the internal components of Kubernetes (scheduling, API server, controllers, RBAC). Experience writing custom Controllers or Operators is a significant plus .
• You have strong skills in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Typescript, Java, Python, Rust) have a willingness to work with Go , which is our core language for tooling and automation and embrace AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development.
• You have expertise in modern observability stacks (e.g., Grafana LGTM, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics). You can operate and tune the platform at scale, while guiding teams on effective instrumentation and alerting strategies.
• You have deep technical expertise in Release Engineering and GitOps, as well as maintaining infrastructure that enable developers to release their software securely and reliably.
• You have deep knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP protocols, and you understand the intricacies of container networking.

Why gridX

• Flexible & mobile working: Work remotely for up to 70 days from anywhere in the EU and other selected countries such as Indonesia, Canada, Brazil and many more
• Vacation: 30 days for your relaxation
• Sports: 30 Euro allowance for Urban Sports Club or E-Gym Wellpass
• Health: Make use of our (mental) health management offers such as (e.g. 1:1 coaching sessions, daily meditation offers, Self-reflection options) for your mental-wellbeing
• Personal development: Annual development budget of 1,500 euros per employee
• Employee discounts: Access to gridX Corporate Benefits
• Stay fit and safe the planet with our JobRad offer
• Set up a pension plan and receive a fair monthly contribution
• City travel subsidy: 30 Euros monthly allowance for your monthly/annual ticket
• Modern workplace in the hearts of Aachen and Munich with IT equipment of your choice (Apple or Lenovo)
• Annual Teamweek: Enjoy an unforgettable off-site, face extraordinary challenges together with all gridX teams and create unforgettable memories
• Experience the gridX culture at regular team events and receive 100 Euros on top per employee for your department event
• We will donate 20 Euros to a charity of your choice on your birthday
• Sabbatical option: Take a break from the daily work routine and realize personal projects, travel or further education (depends on length of employment)

About Us
We believe in a future where all DERs are connected and optimized to efficiently power the new energy age

Our passionate and interdisciplinary team at our offices in Aachen and Munich is ready to face the digital transformation of various industries: With our interoperable IoT platform we bring connectivity, analytics and intelligent control into decentralized energy systems.

Whether it's maximizing the self-sufficiency of buildings, intelligent charging strategies for EVs, cross-sector optimization of branches and districts, control of virtual power plants or completely new business models - the gridX platform enables our partners to bring their customers one step ahead of the competition and continuously create added value.

Join us disrupting the international energy sector with our cutting edge IoT platform