This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps
About you
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An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems
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Strong in Linux, databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and networking fundamentals
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Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Datadog
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A self-starter who thrives in scaling environments and can work independently without PMs
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Pragmatic, able to balance prevention, maintenance, and firefighting when needed
Your mission is to
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Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users
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Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
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Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)
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Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability
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Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable
Your impact
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Collaborate with engineering teams to improve operational workflows and resilience
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Design smart alerts, improve observability, and drive better performance monitoring
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Lead incident response, including on-call, and drive improvement with blameless postmortems
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Build safer delivery methods and improve deployments with Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines
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Report directly to the CTO and act as the primary reliability leader in the company
Your toolkit
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Linux, networking (TCP/IP), and distributed systems troubleshooting
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Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
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Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, CI/CD best practices
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Observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK stack
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Nice-to-haves: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Datadog
What makes this role exciting
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Be the first senior SRE hire with ownership of reliability across the entire platform
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Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up growing beyond 100 FTE
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Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
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Gain autonomy while collaborating with strong product and engineering teams
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Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement
Why Almedia?
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Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
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Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
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Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
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Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
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We Listen: We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.
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We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.