Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Kobo

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

UnknownVisa

HR Technology, SaaS, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

6–8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software roles, ideally in growth-stage environments
Strong expertise in at least one of: compute, storage/databases, or networking in cloud environments
Core competency in Postgres database administration, including index management, query testing, and large-scale (terabyte+) table handling
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Proven track record with incident management and production troubleshooting
Solid understanding of performance optimization, distributed architectures, and security for large-scale systems
Hands-on coding skills in at least one modern programming language (e.g. TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby)
Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Own & evolve infrastructure: Keep Kombo’s systems highly available, scalable, and secure
Incident response: Lead on-call rotations, run blameless postmortems, and continuously improve our response processes
Distributed systems: Design, operate, and optimize services on Kubernetes & Google Cloud
Database reliability: Own Postgres administration (backups, performance tuning, index management), handle terabyte-scale tables, and ensure resilience at scale
Observability: Improve monitoring & alerting (Google Cloud Monitoring + any tools you recommend)
Networking: Manage VPCs, routing, load balancing, and related components
CI/CD: Automate and streamline pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Collaboration: Work closely with our TypeScript-heavy product team to embed reliability into every release
Operational excellence: Define SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, write runbooks, and champion good engineering hygiene

Skills

Kubernetes

GCP

Postgres

CI/CD

SRE

Infrastructure Scaling

Reliability Engineering

Kobo

Provides eReaders and digital reading apps

About Kobo

Rakuten Kobo Inc., a leading player in digital reading technology, provides a sophisticated ecosystem for seamless access to ebooks across various devices through its range of eReaders and Kobo App. This company is ideal for individuals passionate about transforming and enhancing the global reading experience, offering a highly collaborative environment that supports over 30 million users worldwide. Employees can thrive on opportunities to interact with cutting-edge technology while contributing to an expansive digital library that enriches both the accessibility and enjoyment of reading.

Toronto, CanadaHeadquarters

2009Year Founded

$395.9MTotal Funding

ACQUISITIONCompany Stage

Consumer Software, EducationIndustries

201-500Employees