Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

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 60 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:

• Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
• Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
• Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
• Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
  

Staff Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps

Berlin (preferred) or Remote

About you

• An SRE or DevOps engineer with hands-on experience in high-traffic production systems
• Strong in Linux, databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis), and networking fundamentals
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Datadog
• A self-starter who thrives in scaling environments and can work independently without PMs
• Pragmatic, able to balance prevention, maintenance, and firefighting when needed

Your mission is to

• Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 50M+ users
• Build robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and enable safe deployments (blue-green, canary)
• Partner with engineers across teams to fix pain points in infra, tooling, and reliability
• Bring initiatives that make the platform automatically reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable

Your impact

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve operational workflows and resilience
• Design smart alerts, improve observability, and drive better performance monitoring
• Lead incident response, including on-call, and drive improvement with blameless postmortems
• Build safer delivery methods and improve deployments with Kubernetes and GitLab pipelines
• Report directly to the CTO and act as the primary reliability leader in the company

Your toolkit

• Linux, networking (TCP/IP), and distributed systems troubleshooting
• Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
• Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, CI/CD best practices
• Observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK stack
• Nice-to-haves: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, Datadog

What makes this role exciting

• Be the first senior SRE hire with ownership of reliability across the entire platform
• Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up growing beyond 100 FTE
• Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
• Gain autonomy while collaborating with strong product and engineering teams
• Join a culture that values pragmatism, initiative, and continuous improvement

Why Almedia?

• Own Our Growth : We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.
• Scale With Almedia : Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.
• Central Berlin Office : Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.
• Other Benefits : Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.
• We Listen : We regularly add to our benefits through rigorous employee feedback.

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.