Senior Platform, Reliability Engineer

🕒 September 21

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

☁️ SaaS

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Contabo is a provider of cloud hosting services offering a range of virtual private servers (VPS), dedicated servers, and bare metal servers with a focus on affordability and performance. Known for its fast provisioning and award-winning customer support, Contabo operates globally with data centers in 9 regions and 12 locations. The company emphasizes German quality since 2003 and provides solutions for individuals and businesses seeking efficient and cost-effective cloud computing resources. Notable features include the Contabo API for programmatic access to resources, custom image deployments, and strong emphasis on security.

📋 Description

• Take architectural ownership of shared infrastructure services • Own API gateway and ingress, persistent storage, secrets and identity infrastructure, edge security/WAF, and observability services • Investigate partially under-documented systems and remediate known weaknesses • Evaluate aging components using build-versus-buy reasoning • Decide which legacy components should be fixed, replaced, or retired • Design and establish an on-call process • Create runbooks for platform and infrastructure incidents • Mature observability practices with distributed tracing, SLOs/SLIs, and meaningful dashboards • Operate and build on Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy, and OpenTelemetry • Contribute to system design reviews and apply infrastructure fundamentals to services • Advise multiple teams on shared infrastructure services • Consistently document and distribute technical knowledge • Reduce platform-wide single points of failure and resolve known risks • Travel occasionally for datacenter visits and team offsites

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles • Ideally, end-to-end responsibility for a private cloud or IaaS platform • Hands-on production experience with distributed storage systems, especially Ceph • Experience with Kubernetes persistent storage, Longhorn or comparable • Experience operating API gateways and ingress, such as Kong or Nginx Ingress • Experience debugging CORS and rate limiting • Experience with CDN/edge security, DDoS mitigation, WAF configuration, and firewall-rule design • Strong grounding in load balancing, caching, sharding/replication, consistency models, and message queues • Experience designing or maturing observability with tracing, metrics, and SLOs/SLIs is desirable • Experience with Vault, Keycloak, NATS, on-call processes, and incident runbooks is a plus • Composure working with grown, incompletely documented systems • Ability to act as a technical go-to person across teams and share/document knowledge • Professional fluency in English • German language skills, CKA/CKS or Ceph certifications, and Proxmox/OpenStack experience are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote or hybrid with flexible hours • Same technical equipment at home as in the office • Workation across the EU and in the summer office in Mallorca • Access to EGYM Wellpass and thousands of fitness and wellness facilities • Discounts on many products and services through the corporate benefits program • 30 days of vacation • Additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve • Extra day off for social activities through Volunteer Day • Individual professional and personal development opportunities • Modern, conveniently located offices across European locations • International, diverse work environment • Company events and team activities • Ownership and creative freedom • Open feedback culture

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