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Senior Engineer, Operational Excellence(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior
AI/ML

Reducing incident frequency and MTTR for travel booking platform. Deep observability tooling and Java coding skills required. Work from anywhere 30 days/year, annual growth budget.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of observability tooling (Datadog)
  • Proven experience reducing MTTD, MTTR, change failure rate
  • Strong coding skills in Java
  • Comfortable reading/contributing in Go
  • Frontend context to collaborate with React/Vue teams
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio/Envoy)
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems
  • Solid understanding of networking
  • Solid understanding of container technology
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD
  • Hands-on experience with automated testing strategies
  • Hands-on experience with build systems
  • Ability to influence engineers and teams
  • Excellent written communication skills in English
  • Excellent verbal communication skills in English
  • Positive, proactive team player
  • Passionate about operational excellence
  • Led company-wide initiatives to improve DORA metrics
  • Identified systemic gaps in automated testing
  • Driven improvements reducing change failure rate/incidents
  • Embedded operational excellence into product engineering culture
  • Driven cost-reduction outcomes through improvements

Tasks

  • Prevent incidents and enhance user trust
  • Drive down incident frequency, MTTD, and MTTR
  • Lead post-incident reviews and implement improvements
  • Build tooling and runbooks for faster issue resolution
  • Champion blameless incident handling and continuous improvement
  • Participate in infrastructure on-call rotation
  • Advance Datadog-based observability practices
  • Ensure meaningful SLOs and actionable alerts
  • Enable production debugging capabilities
  • Improve change failure rate with automated test coverage
  • Identify and mitigate blast radius risks and architectural gaps
  • Reduce deployment costs and risks through better tooling
  • Design and maintain well-documented development paths
  • Collaborate with product teams on system design and testability
  • Leverage Kubernetes, AWS, and Istio for infrastructure best practices
  • Identify and drive cost optimization opportunities
  • Leverage AI to accelerate incident response and improve workflows

Work Experience

  • approx. 4 - 6 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Datadog
  • Java
  • Go
  • React
  • Vue
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Istio
  • Envoy

Benefits

Flexible Working

  • Hybrid working approach
  • Work from anywhere (30 days/year)

Additional Allowances

  • Annual personal growth budget

Mentorship & Coaching

  • Mentorship programs

Team Events

  • Quarterly team events
  • Yearly company-wide events

Public Transport Subsidies

  • Monthly transportation budget

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Monthly fitness budget
  • Health and wellness benefits

Corporate Discounts

  • Discounts on activities

Learning & Development

  • Language reimbursement program
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