Site Reliability Engineer – Observability, Internal Tools

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for observability and internal tools at smartclip. Focusing on automation, developer infrastructure, and performance enhancements.

Posted 7/14/2026full-time🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in observability, automation, and developer infrastructure, with a strong focus on designing and evolving production-grade setups on GCP or AWS. Emphasizes ownership and a systems thinking approach to transform metrics, logs, and traces into actionable insights.

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Observability MindsetGCP or AWS Setup DesignPrometheus and Grafana ProficiencyLinux Systems NavigationOpen-Source Contributions

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Hard Skills

Observability Stack ManagementSLO DefinitionActionable Alerting CreationRoot-Cause AnalysisSecurity Engineering Integration

Soft Skills

Systems ThinkingTechnical CuriosityOwnership

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaForgejoGCPAWS

Industry Keywords

Developer InfrastructureAutomationIncident PreventionBlameless Post-Mortems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaLinuxPrometheus

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take full ownership of smartclip’s internal utility and platform tooling
Focus energy on the intersection of observability, automation, and developer infrastructure
Operate and advance observability stack (including Prometheus, Grafana, and Forgejo)
Replace "buy" decisions with robust "build & maintain" strategies
Design observability as a platform capability
Define SLOs and create actionable alerting to prevent incidents
Embed security engineering into the delivery process
Navigate Linux systems and distributed tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

Be motivated by systems thinking and deep technical curiosity
Apply an Observability Mindset: Implement a clear strategy for metrics, logs, and traces
Transform "noisy alerts" into "actionable insights"
Embrace Ownership: Live the "you build it, you run it" philosophy
Design and evolve production-grade setups on GCP or AWS
Show contributions to open-source projects
Turn passion for root-cause analysis into blameless post-mortems

Benefits

Comp & perks

30 days of vacation + Dec 24 & 31 off
Smart Fridays (4 days week possible)
Mobility (Germany ticket & JobRad)
Sports & health offerings
Mental health support
Corporate benefits
RTL+ access