Site Reliability Engineer – Bare Metal Linux – Data Center – Networking – €180k
Our client is building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy workloads. They operate large-scale infrastructure where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not "handled".
We're seeking a Senior SRE who will own production reliability end-to-end for our client: define SLIs/SLOs, run error budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You'll build automation to kill toil, improve deployment safety (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise.
This is a bare-metal environment: think Linux, datacenters, physical fleets, and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You'll work close to the metal across Kubernetes internals (scheduling, autoscaling behavior, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane), Linux performance (CPU/memory/IO contention), and network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion). On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it.
Requirements:
Production Engineering experience running bare metal / on-prem / data center infrastructure (not public cloud only)
Deep hands-on expertise in
Linux systems
debugging and performance (
CPU
, memory, IO,
kernel-level
behaviors)
Strong understanding of networking (
DNS/TCP/TLS
, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting under load)
Strong
Kubernetes
experience beyond manifests: scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane
Experience with
Terraform, Docker, Helm
, and modern CI/CD practices
Coding skills in
Go, and/or Python and/or C++
If you're looking for complexity and a new place to nerd out on infrastructure optimization, we'd love to hear from you.
Location:
Amsterdam – hybrid
Total compensation:
up to €180k