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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE / Backend) - **Company:** nilo - **Location:** Berlin, Germany - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Migration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Amazon DynamoDB, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, PostgreSQL, Query Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Vulnerability Management, Web Applications, Working Model 2D, Datadog, Grafana, Indexer, Backend, Servicebus, Event Driven Architecture, Sentry, AWS Fargate, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, New Relic (SaaS), Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing - **Published:** July 26, 2026 - **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a5da24cd6729a2b3 ## About the Role Must-have * 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, platform, or backend engineering, with real production ownership * Deep AWS experience across serverless and containers - Lambda, ECS Fargate, and debugging both under pressure * Strong Terraform skills, including module design and managing state across multiple environments * Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture (SQS, SNS, EventBridge) and a healthy respect for its failure modes * Solid PostgreSQL: query tuning, indexing, connection management, and zero-downtime migrations * Production experience with Datadog or a comparable observability platform (Grafana, New Relic, Honeycomb) * Comfortable writing production backend code in [Python / Node.js / Go] * Genuine on-call and incident response experience - you've led an incident and written the postmortem * Strong security fundamentals: IAM, least privilege, secrets, network isolation, common web vulnerabilities * Pragmatic about complexity - you reach for the simplest thing that meets the reliability bar * Effective communicator who can explain a technical tradeoff without jargon Nice-to-have * AWS DMS or other data migration and replication tooling * Compliance experience (GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001) * Experience in a B2B SaaS environment or healthcare-related product ## Description We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to take ownership of the infrastructure behind our platform. We run web applications and two mobile apps entirely on AWS, built around serverless and event-driven services and managed with Terraform., * Own our AWS infrastructure end to end - Lambda, ECS Fargate, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, SES, Cognito, DynamoDB, RDS Postgres, and DMS * Manage everything as code in Terraform, with well-designed modules, clean state management, and a solid review workflow * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with safe rollout and rollback across web, mobile backends, and infrastructure * Design our event-driven services for resilience: retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency, graceful degradation * Own our Datadog and Sentry setup - define SLOs, build dashboards, and keep alerting actionable instead of noisy * Lead incident response and run blameless postmortems that actually change how we build * Harden our security posture: IAM, secrets management, network boundaries, Cognito auth flows, and vulnerability remediation * Protect sensitive health data and support our GDPR and compliance requirements * Monitor and optimize AWS spend without compromising reliability * Contribute to backend development - APIs, event consumers, data pipelines, and Postgres and DynamoDB performance * Participate in architectural discussions and mentor engineers on operational excellence, * Real ownership: a small team, short feedback loops, and no layers of approval between you and production * Work that matters: the reliability you build directly affects people reaching for mental health support * Free access to the nilo app (incl. family support) * A dedicated learning budget for your personal and professional development * Work abroad for up to 90 days per year (within the EU) * Hybrid working model: 2 days/week from the office, 3 days from home * Urban Sports Club membership at a discounted price * Equity options: you benefit from any increase in nilo's valuation that you've helped to create * Regular team and company events * Bring your dog to work: we have 4 office dogs ## Related Videos - [From Doubt to Confidence: How Sentry Uses Verdaccio to Bulletproof SDK Releases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/739-from-doubt-to-confidence-how-sentry-uses-verdaccio-to-bulletproof-sdk-releases) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100158-the-opentelemetry-mistakes-i-keep-seeing-and-how-to-stop-making-them) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100185-leading-with-reliability-applying-sre-principles-to-build-stronger-engineering-organizations) ## Related Articles - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs)