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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Storage Infrastructure

Permanent employee, Full-time · Munich
The Role
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.

Personio is aiming to build a compute team that will provide tools and infrastructure as code used by our whole engineering department and within our own infrastructure teams. We are aiming to make our engineers autonomous and able to run & operate their own infrastructure in AWS.
We need you to solve our main challenges for our product engineers like the ability to create and operate all resources they need, facilitate access to all AWS managed services (mostly serverless), and excel in monitoring.
At the same time, Personio aims to serve more and more customers, leading to new scalability and architectural challenges that will need to be addressed.
In 2 years we aim to have a uniform platform that is easy to scalable, observable, and cost-optimized while being easily usable by all our stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and supporting a variety of storage and in-transit solutions with the product teams
  • Engineering APIs and tools to allow engineers to manipulate datasets for bug hunting
  • Design compliant direct data access for debugging purposes while being compliant with data privacy
  • Enabling engineering teams with self-service infrastructure as code for datastores
  • Working hand-by-hand with the other infrastructure teams to create a coherent data platform
  • Documenting and running internal formation
What you need to succeed
  • Over 4 years experience in contributing toward the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems with AWS
  • You have a good knowledge of AWS APIs and are at ease with serverless cloud technologies
  • You have experience with DevOps (CI/CD) concepts & tooling in the cloud and master at least one infrastructure-as-code tool
  • You use regularly at least one programming language (Python or Golang ideally)
  • You have excellent written and spoken English
  • You have experienced or willing to experience rapid growth and are “building our plane while flying it”. So bring your agile mindset to the table!
  • You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
  • Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes!
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
  • Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, including a Personio contribution
  • Choose between green mobility options, including a JobRad® bike or monthly public transportation ticket
  • Access multiple fitness studios and sports facilities across Germany for €22 per month with a subsidized Qualitrain membership
  • A beautiful, spacious office in the heart of Munich, 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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