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 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.

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.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER / DEVOPS

(€80K – €150K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus)

ABOUT YOU

• Full-stack SRE/DevOps with experience in server configuration
• Expert in Linux, high-traffic systems, real scale
• Manage Cloud and bare metal, databases, networking, distributed systems
• On-call owner, self-starter, bring end-to-end initiatives, automate

YOUR MISSION IS TO

• Take ownership of uptime and reliability for a platform serving 70M+ 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

• Partner with engineering teams to eliminate bottlenecks and build resilient systems from the ground up
• Design intelligent alerting and observability that catches problems before users ever notice
• Own incident response end-to-end, on-call, fast resolution, and blameless postmortems that actually prevent recurrence
• Harden the delivery pipeline with Kubernetes and GitLab, safer, faster deployments

YOUR TOOLKIT

• Linux, TCP/IP, and distributed systems
• Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
• Kubernetes, GitLab, CI/CD
• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Nice to have: Kafka, Terraform, Ansible, GCP, DBA

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE EXCITING

• Shape infrastructure and processes for a scale-up
• Work on a product serving millions of users worldwide with real engineering challenges
• 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.