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Site Reliability Engineer - Tech Platform

Permanent employee, Full-time · Dublin
The Role
At Personio we are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe! 

Join our international agile Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices. 

We are just starting to build out our brand new Site Reliability Engineering team in Dublin from scratch. We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong background in database technologies along with problem-solving skills fuelled by a desire to design, build, and scale the infrastructure of one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS startups. The SRE team offers services, tools, and coaching to the product engineers in a self-service way in order to allow them to have full ownership of their applications and infrastructure. Due to the sensitivity of the data, we host we adhere to the highest data protection requirements. We strive to further build a state-of-the-art and least-maintenance infrastructure to fulfill our customers’ needs.

The Technology Platform domain mission is to ensure Personio builds and scales as a high-performing engineering organization. We drive engineering excellence in Personio, for the benefit of our engineers, our product, and our customers by comprising teams dedicated to excellence in specific areas of software engineering. We measure the core metrics of software development delivery and we use them to drive initiatives that enable teams to build, test, deliver, and operate their software to the highest industry standards. This makes our engineers happy and empowered to do great work. Our measurable contribution to the success of Personio lies in empowering engineering excellence positively impacting Product Development and leading to increased customer satisfaction. 

Like all our domains we are a group of engineers from many different nationalities and backgrounds, spread across different locations and we continue to grow in 2022. Join us and help shape the Technology Platform journey for Personio.

In this role, you would be responsible for building an automated, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platform that enables innovation and easy access to solutions for engineers to focus on feature development.

Responsibilities:
  • Monitor, maintain, and apply best practices for the underlying platform infrastructure
  • Write public and accessible documentation and organize training for a good customer experience regarding the services we manage
  • Support running the Personio applications from an SRE perspective in order to automate tasks 
  • Support product engineers and platform engineers with all the knowledge you have
  • Provide engineers with the tools required to build and run their services
  • Aim for a cost-efficient infrastructure and work with product teams to optimize the costs
  • Proactively engage in shaping the future product and platform architecture
What you need to succeed
  • 3+ years production experience with AWS
  • Experience in fast-scaling SaaS environment
  • Administrating production databases with replication and heavy loads
  • Production experience with Docker
  • Infrastructure as code experience & container orchestration experience with Kubernetes
  • Proven experience with microservice architecture and tooling
  • Experience with CI/CD automation tools
  • Experience with best practices in software engineering
  • Confidence in coaching and onboarding team members and driving cross-team engineering initiatives
  • Excellent English language skills (written and verbal)
Why Personio
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Personio a great place to work! Work with us and receive:

  • A competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
  • 28 days of paid vacation, plus another additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
  • 2 Impact Days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative! #SocialResponsibility
  • Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! We offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework to suit your needs
  • Annual personal development budget of €1,500 for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc.
  • Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more! (COVID permitting)
  • High-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
  • Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
  • Save money with corporate discounts across brands like Adidas, LG, Bosch, Apple, and more
  • Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage for each permanent employee (excluding taxes)
  • Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, with a Personio match of up to 5%
  • Access multiple fitness studios and sports facilities across Ireland for €30 per month with a subsidized Gympass membership
  • A beautiful office in the heart of Dublin, complete with professional espresso machines, free drinks and snacks, and indoor and outdoor break spaces
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About us
Being a Personio means being part of something big. It means shaping the future of HR, the future of our company, and at the same time, the future of you. And we’re not just one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe. In October 2021 we raised $270 million in Series E funding, making Personio the fastest-growing and most valuable HR technology company in Europe. With more than 6,000 customers and a team that has doubled in size in 2021 alone, now is the perfect time to join! We’re hiring talented, impact-driven individuals who want to be more than just another employee.

Personio is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We #EmbraceUniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. As we continue to scale, we focus on enabling our employees to grow both personally and professionally.

We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Will you join us in shaping the future of HR in Europe?



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